kernel.git/mm/slub.c, branch linux-3.11.y

Revert "slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0"

2013-08-08T16:06:37Z

This reverts commit 318df36e57c0ca9f2146660d41ff28e8650af423. This commit caused Steven Rostedt's hackbench runs to run out of memory due to a leak. As noted by Joonsoo Kim, it is buggy in the following scenario: "I guess, you may set 0 to all kmem caches's cpu_partial via sysfs, doesn't it? In this case, memory leak is possible in following case. Code flow of possible leak is follwing case. * in __slab_free() 1. (!new.inuse || !prior) && !was_frozen 2. !kmem_cache_debug && !prior 3. new.frozen = 1 4. after cmpxchg_double_slab, run the (!n) case with new.frozen=1 5. with this patch, put_cpu_partial() doesn't do anything, because this cache's cpu_partial is 0 6. return In step 5, leak occur" And Steven does indeed have cpu_partial set to 0 due to RT testing. Joonsoo is cooking up a patch, but everybody agrees that reverting this for now is the right thing to do. Reported-and-bisected-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files

2013-07-14T23:36:59Z

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include) that don't really have a specific maintainer. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux

2013-07-14T22:14:29Z

Pull slab update from Pekka Enberg: "Highlights: - Fix for boot-time problems on some architectures due to init_lock_keys() not respecting kmalloc_caches boundaries (Christoph Lameter) - CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL requested by RT folks (Joonsoo Kim) - Fix for excessive slab freelist draining (Wanpeng Li) - SLUB and SLOB cleanups and fixes (various people)" I ended up editing the branch, and this avoids two commits at the end that were immediately reverted, and I instead just applied the oneliner fix in between myself. * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux slub: Check for page NULL before doing the node_match check mm/slab: Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor() slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentation slab: fix init_lock_keys slob: use DIV_ROUND_UP where possible slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0 mm/slub: Use node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs in get_slabinfo mm/slub: Drop unnecessary nr_partials mm/slab: Fix /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.h mm, slab: moved kmem_cache_alloc_node comment to correct place

slub: Check for page NULL before doing the node_match check

2013-07-14T22:13:16Z

In the -rt kernel (mrg), we hit the following dump: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x51/0x180 PGD a2d39067 PUD b1641067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand ipv6 tg3 joydev sg serio_raw pcspkr k8temp amd64_edac_mod edac_core i2c_piix4 e100 mii shpchp ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom sata_svw ata_generic pata_acpi pata_serverworks radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm hwmon i2c_algo_bit i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU 3 Pid: 20878, comm: hackbench Not tainted 3.6.11-rt25.14.el6rt.x86_64 #1 empty empty/Tyan Transport GT24-B3992 RIP: 0010:[] [] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x51/0x180 RSP: 0018:ffff8800a9b17d70 EFLAGS: 00010213 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000001200011 RCX: ffff8800a06d8000 RDX: 0000000004d92a03 RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: ffff88013b805500 RBP: ffff8800a9b17dc0 R08: ffff88023fd14d10 R09: ffffffff81041cbd R10: 00007f4e3f06e9d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffff88013b805500 R13: ffff8801ff46af40 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f4e3f06e700(0000) GS:ffff88023fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000a2d3a000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process hackbench (pid: 20878, threadinfo ffff8800a9b16000, task ffff8800a06d8000) Stack: ffff8800a9b17da0 ffffffff81202e08 ffff8800a9b17de0 000000d001200011 0000000001200011 0000000001200011 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00007f4e3f06e9d0 0000000000000000 ffff8800a9b17e60 ffffffff81041cbd Call Trace: [] ? current_has_perm+0x68/0x80 [] copy_process+0xdd/0x15b0 [] ? rt_up_read+0x25/0x30 [] do_fork+0x5a/0x360 [] ? migrate_enable+0xeb/0x220 [] sys_clone+0x28/0x30 [] stub_clone+0x13/0x20 [] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 89 fc 89 75 cc 41 89 d6 4d 8b 04 24 65 4c 03 04 25 48 ae 00 00 49 8b 50 08 4d 8b 28 49 8b 40 10 4d 85 ed 74 12 41 83 fe ff 74 27 <48> 8b 00 48 c1 e8 3a 41 39 c6 74 1b 8b 75 cc 4c 89 c9 44 89 f2 RIP [] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x51/0x180 RSP CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace 0000000000000002 ]--- Now, this uses SLUB pretty much unmodified, but as it is the -rt kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT set, spinlocks are mutexes, although they do disable migration. But the SLUB code is relatively lockless, and the spin_locks there are raw_spin_locks (not converted to mutexes), thus I believe this bug can happen in mainline without -rt features. The -rt patch is just good at triggering mainline bugs ;-) Anyway, looking at where this crashed, it seems that the page variable can be NULL when passed to the node_match() function (which does not check if it is NULL). When this happens we get the above panic. As page is only used in slab_alloc() to check if the node matches, if it's NULL I'm assuming that we can say it doesn't and call the __slab_alloc() code. Is this a correct assumption? Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable

2013-07-07T16:09:56Z

CPU partial support can introduce level of indeterminism that is not wanted in certain context (like a realtime kernel). Make it configurable. This patch is based on Christoph Lameter's "slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable V2". Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0

2013-07-07T15:46:30Z

In free path, we don't check number of cpu_partial, so one slab can be linked in cpu partial list even if cpu_partial is 0. To prevent this, we should check number of cpu_partial in put_cpu_partial(). Acked-by: Christoph Lameeter Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

mm/slub: Use node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs in get_slabinfo

2013-07-07T15:37:48Z

Use existing interface node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs to get nr_slabs and nr_objs. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

mm/slub: Drop unnecessary nr_partials

2013-07-07T15:37:48Z

This patch remove unused nr_partials variable. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux

2013-05-07T15:42:20Z

Pull slab changes from Pekka Enberg: "The bulk of the changes are more slab unification from Christoph. There's also few fixes from Aaron, Glauber, and Joonsoo thrown into the mix." * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (24 commits) mm, slab_common: Fix bootstrap creation of kmalloc caches slab: Return NULL for oversized allocations mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node slub: tid must be retrieved from the percpu area of the current processor slub: Do not dereference NULL pointer in node_match slub: add 'likely' macro to inc_slabs_node() slub: correct to calculate num of acquired objects in get_partial_node() slub: correctly bootstrap boot caches mm/sl[au]b: correct allocation type check in kmalloc_slab() slab: Fixup CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC/DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK sections slab: Handle ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN correctly slab: Common definition for kmem_cache_node slab: Rename list3/l3 to node slab: Common Kmalloc cache determination stat: Use size_t for sizes instead of unsigned slab: Common function to create the kmalloc array slab: Common definition for the array of kmalloc caches slab: Common constants for kmalloc boundaries slab: Rename nodelists to node slab: Common name for the per node structures ...

Merge branch 'slab/next' into slab/for-linus

2013-05-07T06:19:47Z