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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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Currently trace_handle_return() looks like this:
static inline enum print_line_t trace_handle_return(struct trace_seq *s)
{
return trace_seq_has_overflowed(s) ?
TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE : TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED;
}
Where trace_seq_overflowed(s) is:
static inline bool trace_seq_has_overflowed(struct trace_seq *s)
{
return s->full || seq_buf_has_overflowed(&s->seq);
}
And seq_buf_has_overflowed(&s->seq) is:
static inline bool
seq_buf_has_overflowed(struct seq_buf *s)
{
return s->len > s->size;
}
Making trace_handle_return() into:
return (s->full || (s->seq->len > s->seq->size)) ?
TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE :
TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED;
One would think this is not an issue to keep as an inline. But because
this is used in the TRACE_EVENT() macro, it is extended for every
tracepoint in the system. Taking a look at a single tracepoint
x86_irq_vector (was the first one I randomly chosen). As
trace_handle_return is used in the TRACE_EVENT() macro of
trace_raw_output_##call() we disassemble trace_raw_output_x86_irq_vector
and do a diff. I removed identical lines that were different just due to
different addresses.
The original has 22 bytes of text more than the out of line version. As
this is for every TRACE_EVENT() defined in the system, this can become
quite large.
text data bss dec hex filename
8690305 5450490 1298432 15439227 eb957b vmlinux-orig
8681725 5450490 1298432 15430647 eb73f7 vmlinux-handle
This change has a total of 8580 bytes in savings.
$ objdump -dr /tmp/vmlinux-orig | grep '^[0-9a-f]* <trace_raw_output' | wc -l
324
That's 324 tracepoints. But this does not include modules (which contain
many more tracepoints). For an allyesconfig build:
$ objdump -dr vmlinux-allyes-orig | grep '^[0-9a-f]* <trace_raw_output' | wc -l
1401
That's 1401 tracepoints giving us:
text data bss dec hex filename
137827709 140221067 53264384 331313160 13bf7008 vmlinux-allyes-handle
137920629 140221067 53264384 331406080 13c0db00 vmlinux-allyes-orig
92920 bytes in savings!!!
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315021431.13107-2-andi@firstfloor.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316113459.2366588b@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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pagefault_disabled_dec is frequently used inline, and it has a WARN_ON for
underflow that expands to about 6.5k of extra code. The warning doesn't
seem to be that useful and worth so much code so remove it.
If it was needed could make it depending on some debug kernel option.
Saves ~6.5k in my kernel
text data bss dec hex filename
9039417 5367568 11116544 25523529 1857549 vmlinux-before-pf
9032805 5367568 11116544 25516917 1855b75 vmlinux-pf
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315021431.13107-8-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove an inline from a fairly big function that is used often. It's
unlikely that calling or not calling it makes a lot of difference.
Saves around 8k text in my kernel.
text data bss dec hex filename
9047801 5367568 11116544 25531913 1859609 vmlinux-before-megasas
9039417 5367568 11116544 25523529 1857549 vmlinux-megasas
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315021431.13107-7-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@avagotech.com>
Cc: Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@avagotech.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The kref functions check for NULL release functions. This WARN_ON seems
rather pointless. We will eventually release and then just crash nicely.
It is also somewhat expensive because these functions are inlined in a lot
of places. Removing the WARN_ONs saves around 2.3k in this kernel (likely
more in others with more drivers)
text data bss dec hex filename
9083992 5367600 11116544 25568136 1862388 vmlinux-before-load-avg
9070166 5367600 11116544 25554310 185ed86 vmlinux-load-avg
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315021431.13107-5-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This is a very complex function, which is called in multiple places. It
is unlikely that inlining or not inlining it makes any difference for its
run time.
This saves around 13k text in my kernel
text data bss dec hex filename
9083992 5367600 11116544 25568136 1862388 vmlinux-before-load-avg
9070166 5367600 11116544 25554310 185ed86 vmlinux-load-avg
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315021431.13107-4-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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fix rejects fix
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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__arch_atomic_add_unless is fairly big and often used, so it's quite
expensive to inline it. But it's unlikely that a call makes much
difference for such a complex function doing an expensive atomic. So out
of line it.
This saves around 12k of text.
text data bss dec hex filename
9084246 5367600 11116544 25568390 1862486 vmlinux-atomic-add
9096494 5367568 11116544 25580606 186543e vmlinux-before-atomic-add
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315021431.13107-3-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that all call sites, completely decouple cacheflush.h and
set_memory.h
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-17-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-16-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-15-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-14-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-13-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-12-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-11-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-10-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-9-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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track drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_gtt.c linux-next changes
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-8-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-7-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-6-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-5-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Use that header
explicitly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-4-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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set_memory_* functions have moved to set_memory.h. Switch to this
explicitly
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-3-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "set_memory_* functions header refactor", v3.
The set_memory_* APIs came out of a desire to have a better way to change
memory attributes. Many of these attributes were linked to cache
functionality so the prototypes were put in cacheflush.h. These days, the
APIs have grown and have a much wider use than just cache APIs. To
support this growth, split off set_memory_* and friends into a separate
header file to avoid growing cacheflush.h for APIs that have nothing to do
with caches.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488920133-27229-2-git-send-email-labbott@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:
intialisation||initialisation
intialised||initialised
intialise||initialise
This commit does not intend to change the British spelling itself.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-18-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This typo is quite common. Fix it and add it to the spelling file so that
checkpatch catches it earlier.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170317011131.6881-2-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:
momery||memory
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170317011131.6881-1-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation. This API is quite popular
$ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
77
The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space. About half of users don't
use this flag, though. This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.
This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space. Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM are
simplified and drop the flag.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Cristopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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bcache_device_init uses kmalloc for small requests and vmalloc for those
which are larger than 64 pages. This alone is a strange criterion.
Moreover kmalloc can fallback to vmalloc on the failure. Let's simply use
kvmalloc instead as it knows how to handle the fallback properly
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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copy_params uses kmalloc with vmalloc fallback. We already have a helper
for that - kvmalloc. This caller requires GFP_NOIO semantic so it hasn't
been converted with many others by previous patches. All we need to
achieve this semantic is to use the scope memalloc_noio_{save,restore}
around kvmalloc.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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fq_alloc_node, alloc_netdev_mqs and netif_alloc* open code kmalloc with
vmalloc fallback. Use the kvmalloc variant instead. Keep the
__GFP_REPEAT flag based on explanation from Eric:
"At the time, tests on the hardware I had in my labs showed that vmalloc()
could deliver pages spread all over the memory and that was a small
penalty (once memory is fragmented enough, not at boot time)"
The way how the code is constructed means, however, that we prefer to go
and hit the OOM killer before we fall back to the vmalloc for requests
<=32kB (with 4kB pages) in the current code. This is rather disruptive
for something that can be achived with the fallback. On the other hand
__GFP_REPEAT doesn't have any useful semantic for these requests. So the
effect of this patch is that requests smaller than 64kB will fallback to
vmalloc easier now.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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There are many code paths opencoding kvmalloc. Let's use the helper
instead. The main difference to kvmalloc is that those users are usually
not considering all the aspects of the memory allocator. E.g. allocation
requests <= 32kB (with 4kB pages) are basically never failing and invoke
OOM killer to satisfy the allocation. This sounds too disruptive for
something that has a reasonable fallback - the vmalloc. On the other hand
those requests might fallback to vmalloc even when the memory allocator
would succeed after several more reclaim/compaction attempts previously.
There is no guarantee something like that happens though.
This patch converts many of those places to kv[mz]alloc* helpers because
they are more conservative.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> # Xen bits
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> # Lustre
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> # KVM/s390
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> # nvdim
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> # btrfs
Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # Ceph
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> # mlx4
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> # mlx5
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Santosh Raspatur <santosh@chelsio.com>
Cc: Hariprasad S <hariprasad@chelsio.com>
Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Cc: "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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getxattr uses vmalloc to allocate memory if kzalloc fails. This is filled
by vfs_getxattr and then copied to the userspace. vmalloc, however,
doesn't zero out the memory so if the specific implementation of the xattr
handler is sloppy we can theoretically expose a kernel memory. There is
no real sign this is really the case but let's make sure this will not
happen and use vzalloc instead.
Fixes: 779302e67835 ("fs/xattr.c:getxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103327.2766-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.6+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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alloc_ila_locks seemed to c&p from alloc_bucket_locks allocation pattern
which is quite unusual. The default allocation size is 320 *
sizeof(spinlock_t) which is sub page unless lockdep is enabled when the
performance benefit is really questionable and not worth the subtle code
IMHO. Also note that the context when we call ila_init_net (modprobe or a
task creating a net namespace) has to be properly configured.
Let's just simplify the code and use kvmalloc helper which is a
transparent way to use kmalloc with vmalloc fallback.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-5-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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alloc_bucket_locks allocation pattern is quite unusual. We are preferring
vmalloc when CONFIG_NUMA is enabled. The rationale is that vmalloc will
respect the memory policy of the current process and so the backing memory
will get distributed over multiple nodes if the requester is configured
properly. At least that is the intention, in reality rhastable is shrunk
and expanded from a kernel worker so no mempolicy can be assumed.
Let's just simplify the code and use kvmalloc helper, which is a
transparent way to use kmalloc with vmalloc fallback, if the caller is
allowed to block and use the flag otherwise.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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vhost code uses __GFP_REPEAT when allocating vhost_virtqueue resp.
vhost_vsock because it would really like to prefer kmalloc to the vmalloc
fallback - see 23cc5a991c7a ("vhost-net: extend device allocation to
vmalloc") for more context. Michael Tsirkin has also noted:
"__GFP_REPEAT overhead is during allocation time. Using vmalloc means all
accesses are slowed down. Allocation is not on data path, accesses are."
The similar applies to other vhost_kvzalloc users.
Let's teach kvmalloc_node to handle __GFP_REPEAT properly. There are two
things to be careful about. First we should prevent from the OOM killer
and so have to involve __GFP_NORETRY by default and secondly override
__GFP_REPEAT for !costly order requests as the __GFP_REPEAT is ignored for
!costly orders.
Supporting __GFP_REPEAT like semantic for !costly request is possible it
would require changes in the page allocator. This is out of scope of this
patch.
This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.
There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
tree. Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about the
underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that a) some
vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc part will
keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can invoke a really
disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward which doesn't sound
appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc fallback is available.
As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate
knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which
strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory
subsystem proper.
Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper instead.
This is patch 6. There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT in the
networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet was not
opposed [2] to convert them as well.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170130094940.13546-1-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485273626.16328.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com
This patch (of 9):
Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a common
pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper for that
and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are really
creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure it is
implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make a large
memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also to not
warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM killer as the
vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive user visible
action.
This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which are
specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc) because those seems to be broken and
require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible in general
(note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those need to be
fixed separately.
While we are at it, document that __vmalloc{_node} about unsupported gfp
mask because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there.
kvmalloc_node will warn about GFP_KERNEL incompatible (which are not
superset) flags to catch new abusers. Existing ones would have to die
slowly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> [ext4 part]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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