From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
cl@linux.com, penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com,
iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kmalloc_index: remove case when size is more than 32MB
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 16:04:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d0ffe49-a2e2-6c81-377b-4c8d2147dff8@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210510135857.GA3594@hyeyoo>
On 5/10/21 3:58 PM, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:09:55PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 5/9/21 7:33 AM, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
>> > On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 12:19:40AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> >> On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 07:13:28AM +0900, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
>> >> > the return value of kmalloc_index is used as index of kmalloc_caches,
>> >>
>> >> it doesn't matter. every few weeks somebody posts a patch to "optimise"
>> >> kmalloc_index, failing to appreciate that it's only ever run at compile
>> >> time because it's all under __builtin_constant_p().
>> >
>> > Oh thanks, I didn't know about __builtin_constant_p.
>> >
>> > But I was not optimizing kmalloc_index. isn't it confusing that
>> > kmalloc_caches alllows maximum size of 32MB, and kmalloc_index allows
>> > maximum size of 64MB?
>> >
>> > and even if the code I removed is never reached because 64MB is always
>> > bigger than KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE, it will cause an error if reached.
>>
>> KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE depends on KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH
>> size of kmalloc_caches array depends on KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH
>>
>> So I don't an easy way how it could become reachable while causing the index to
>> overflow - if someone increased KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH from 25 to 26, all should be
>> fine, AFAICS.
>>
>> The problem would be if someone increased it to 27, then we might suddenly get a
>> BUG() in kmalloc_index(). We should probably replace that BUG() with
>> BUILD_BUG_ON(1) to catch that at compile time. Hopefully no supported compiler
>> will break because it's not able to do the proper compile-time evaluation - but
>> if it does, at least we would know.
>>
>> So I would accept the patch if it also changed BUG() to e.g. BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(1,
>> "unexpected size in kmalloc_index()");
>> and expanded the function's comment that this is always compile-time evaluated
>> and thus no attempts at "optimizing" the code should be made.
>>
>
> Thank you so much reviewing and replying to my patch.
> plecase check if I understood well.
>
> Okay, I'll do that work. then the following patch will:
> - remove case when size is more than 32MB
> - change "BUG to BUILD_BUG_ON to let compiler know when the size is not supported"
> - add comment that there's no need to optimize it
>
> is it what you mean. right?
Exactly.
> and I have a question. in the lin 751 of mm/slab_common.c,
> thre's struct kmalloc_info_struct kmalloc_info. and it initializes kmalloc info
> up to 64MB, which is currently not supported. should I change it too? in a separate patch?
Yeah that could be also changed, in the same patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-10 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-08 22:13 [PATCH] mm: kmalloc_index: remove case when size is more than 32MB Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-05-08 23:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-09 5:33 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-05-10 10:09 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-05-10 13:58 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-05-10 14:04 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2021-05-10 15:02 ` [PATCH v2] mm: kmalloc_index: make compiler break when size is not supported Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-05-10 15:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2021-05-10 15:21 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-05-11 3:09 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-05-10 15:19 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-05-10 15:38 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-05-11 8:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-05-11 8:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-05-11 9:14 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-05-11 2:59 ` [PATCH v3] mm: change run-time assertion in kmalloc_index() to compile-time Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-05-10 15:44 ` [PATCH v2] mm: kmalloc_index: make compiler break when size is not supported Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-11 3:03 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-05-11 8:33 ` Vlastimil Babka
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