From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, RCU <rcu@vger.kernel.org>,
Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/24] rcu/tree: Make kvfree_rcu() tolerate any alignment
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 20:24:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200504002437.GA212435@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200501230052.GG7560@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 04:00:52PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:58:59PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> > From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> >
> > Handle cases where the the object being kvfree_rcu()'d is not aligned by
> > 2-byte boundaries.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> > ---
> > kernel/rcu/tree.c | 9 ++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > index 501cac02146d..649bad7ad0f0 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > @@ -2877,6 +2877,9 @@ struct kvfree_rcu_bulk_data {
> > #define KVFREE_BULK_MAX_ENTR \
> > ((PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct kvfree_rcu_bulk_data)) / sizeof(void *))
> >
> > +/* Encoding the offset of a fake rcu_head to indicate the head is a wrapper. */
> > +#define RCU_HEADLESS_KFREE BIT(31)
>
> Did I miss the check for freeing something larger than 2GB? Or is this
> impossible, even on systems with many terabytes of physical memory?
> Even if it is currently impossible, what prevents it from suddenly
> becoming all too possible at some random point in the future? If you
> think that this will never happen, please keep in mind that the first
> time I heard "640K ought to be enough for anybody", it sounded eminently
> reasonable to me.
>
> Besides...
>
> Isn't the offset in question the offset of an rcu_head struct within
> the enclosing structure? If so, why not keep the current requirement
> that this be at least 16-bit aligned, especially given that some work
> is required to make that alignment less than pointer sized? Then you
> can continue using bit 0.
>
> This alignment requirement is included in the RCU requirements
> documentation and is enforced within the __call_rcu() function.
>
> So let's leave this at bit 0.
This patch is needed only if we are growing the fake rcu_head. Since you
mentioned in a previous patch in this series that you don't want to do that,
and just rely on availability of the array of pointers or synchronize_rcu(),
we can drop this patch. If we are not dropping that earlier patch, let us
discuss more.
thanks,
- Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-04 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-28 20:58 [PATCH 00/24] Introduce kvfree_rcu(1 or 2 arguments) Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 01/24] rcu/tree: Keep kfree_rcu() awake during lock contention Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 02/24] rcu/tree: Skip entry into the page allocator for PREEMPT_RT Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 03/24] rcu/tree: Use consistent style for comments Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 19:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-01 20:52 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-03 23:44 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 0:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:34 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-04 0:41 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-03 23:52 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 0:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 04/24] rcu/tree: Repeat the monitor if any free channel is busy Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 05/24] rcu/tree: Simplify debug_objects handling Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 06/24] rcu/tree: Simplify KFREE_BULK_MAX_ENTR macro Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 07/24] rcu/tree: move locking/unlocking to separate functions Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 08/24] rcu/tree: Use static initializer for krc.lock Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 21:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:10 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 09/24] rcu/tree: cache specified number of objects Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 21:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:43 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 15:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 17:48 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 18:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 18:08 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 19:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 19:37 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 19:51 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 20:15 ` joel
2020-05-04 20:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-05 11:03 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 10/24] rcu/tree: add rcutree.rcu_min_cached_objs description Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 22:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:44 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 11/24] rcu/tree: Maintain separate array for vmalloc ptrs Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 21:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-03 23:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 0:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:58 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 2:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 14:25 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 12/24] rcu/tiny: support vmalloc in tiny-RCU Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 13/24] rcu: Rename rcu_invoke_kfree_callback/rcu_kfree_callback Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 14/24] rcu: Rename __is_kfree_rcu_offset() macro Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 15/24] rcu: Rename kfree_call_rcu() to the kvfree_call_rcu() Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 16/24] mm/list_lru.c: Rename kvfree_rcu() to local variant Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 17/24] rcu: Introduce 2 arg kvfree_rcu() interface Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 18/24] mm/list_lru.c: Remove kvfree_rcu_local() function Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 19/24] rcu/tree: Support reclaim for head-less object Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 22:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:12 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 0:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:32 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 14:21 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 15:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 16:56 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-04 17:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:57 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 20/24] rcu/tree: Make kvfree_rcu() tolerate any alignment Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 23:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:24 ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2020-05-04 0:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:31 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 12:56 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:59 ` [PATCH 21/24] rcu/tiny: move kvfree_call_rcu() out of header Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 23:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 12:45 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-06 18:29 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-06 18:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-07 17:34 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:59 ` [PATCH 22/24] rcu/tiny: support reclaim for head-less object Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-05-01 23:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 0:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-04 12:45 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-04-28 20:59 ` [PATCH 23/24] rcu: Introduce 1 arg kvfree_rcu() interface Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-04-28 20:59 ` [PATCH 24/24] lib/test_vmalloc.c: Add test cases for kvfree_rcu() Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
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