From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: avoid slub allocation while holding list_lock
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:31:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190912013100.GA114178@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190912004401.jdemtajrspetk3fh@box>
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 03:44:01AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 06:29:28PM -0600, Yu Zhao wrote:
> > If we are already under list_lock, don't call kmalloc(). Otherwise we
> > will run into deadlock because kmalloc() also tries to grab the same
> > lock.
> >
> > Instead, statically allocate bitmap in struct kmem_cache_node. Given
> > currently page->objects has 15 bits, we bloat the per-node struct by
> > 4K. So we waste some memory but only do so when slub debug is on.
>
> Why not have single page total protected by a lock?
>
> Listing object from two pages at the same time doesn't make sense anyway.
> Cuncurent validating is not something sane to do.
Okay, cutting down to static global bitmap.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-12 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-09 6:10 [PATCH] mm: avoid slub allocation while holding list_lock Yu Zhao
2019-09-09 16:00 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
[not found] ` <e5e25aa3-651d-92b4-ac82-c5011c66a7cb@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2019-09-09 21:39 ` Yu Zhao
[not found] ` <201909100141.x8A1fVdu048305@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
2019-09-10 2:16 ` Yu Zhao
2019-09-10 9:16 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-11 14:13 ` Andrew Morton
2019-09-12 0:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: correct mask size for slub page->objects Yu Zhao
2019-09-12 0:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: avoid slub allocation while holding list_lock Yu Zhao
2019-09-12 0:44 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-12 1:31 ` Yu Zhao [this message]
2019-09-12 2:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: correct mask size for slub page->objects Yu Zhao
2019-09-12 2:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: clean up validate_slab() Yu Zhao
2019-09-12 9:46 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-12 2:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mm: avoid slub allocation while holding list_lock Yu Zhao
2019-09-12 10:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-12 2:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: lock slub page when listing objects Yu Zhao
2019-09-12 10:06 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-12 21:12 ` Yu Zhao
2019-09-13 14:58 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-09-12 9:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: correct mask size for slub page->objects Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-12 21:11 ` Yu Zhao
2019-09-12 22:03 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-09-14 0:07 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: clean up validate_slab() Yu Zhao
2019-09-14 0:07 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] mm: avoid slub allocation while holding list_lock Yu Zhao
2019-09-16 8:39 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: clean up validate_slab() Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-11-08 19:39 ` [PATCH v4 " Yu Zhao
2019-11-08 19:39 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] mm: avoid slub allocation while holding list_lock Yu Zhao
2019-11-09 20:52 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-11-09 23:01 ` Yu Zhao
2019-11-09 23:16 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-11-10 18:47 ` Yu Zhao
2019-11-11 15:47 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-11-11 15:55 ` [FIX] slub: Remove kmalloc under list_lock from list_slab_objects() V2 Christopher Lameter
2019-11-30 23:09 ` Andrew Morton
2019-12-02 15:12 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-12-07 22:03 ` Yu Zhao
2020-01-10 14:11 ` Vlastimil Babka
[not found] ` <e0ed44ae-8dae-e8db-9d14-2b09b239af8e@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
2020-01-13 1:34 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-11-11 18:15 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] mm: avoid slub allocation while holding list_lock Shakeel Butt
2019-09-12 0:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: lock slub page when listing objects Yu Zhao
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