linux/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst

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mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two) In most configurations, kmalloc() happens to return naturally aligned (i.e. aligned to the block size itself) blocks for power of two sizes. That means some kmalloc() users might unknowingly rely on that alignment, until stuff breaks when the kernel is built with e.g. CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG or CONFIG_SLOB, and blocks stop being aligned. Then developers have to devise workaround such as own kmem caches with specified alignment [1], which is not always practical, as recently evidenced in [2]. The topic has been discussed at LSF/MM 2019 [3]. Adding a 'kmalloc_aligned()' variant would not help with code unknowingly relying on the implicit alignment. For slab implementations it would either require creating more kmalloc caches, or allocate a larger size and only give back part of it. That would be wasteful, especially with a generic alignment parameter (in contrast with a fixed alignment to size). Ideally we should provide to mm users what they need without difficult workarounds or own reimplementations, so let's make the kmalloc() alignment to size explicitly guaranteed for power-of-two sizes under all configurations. What this means for the three available allocators? * SLAB object layout happens to be mostly unchanged by the patch. The implicitly provided alignment could be compromised with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB due to redzoning, however SLAB disables redzoning for caches with alignment larger than unsigned long long. Practically on at least x86 this includes kmalloc caches as they use cache line alignment, which is larger than that. Still, this patch ensures alignment on all arches and cache sizes. * SLUB layout is also unchanged unless redzoning is enabled through CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and boot parameter for the particular kmalloc cache. With this patch, explicit alignment is guaranteed with redzoning as well. This will result in more memory being wasted, but that should be acceptable in a debugging scenario. * SLOB has no implicit alignment so this patch adds it explicitly for kmalloc(). The potential downside is increased fragmentation. While pathological allocation scenarios are certainly possible, in my testing, after booting a x86_64 kernel+userspace with virtme, around 16MB memory was consumed by slab pages both before and after the patch, with difference in the noise. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/c3157c8e8e0e7588312b40c853f65c02fe6c957a.1566399731.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190225040904.5557-1-ming.lei@redhat.com/ [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/787740/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: documentation fixlet, per Matthew] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826111627.7505-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-10-06 17:58:45 -07:00
slab, rust: extend kmalloc() alignment guarantees to remove Rust padding Slab allocators have been guaranteeing natural alignment for power-of-two sizes since commit 59bb47985c1d ("mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two)"), while any other sizes are guaranteed to be aligned only to ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes (although in practice are aligned more than that in non-debug scenarios). Rust's allocator API specifies size and alignment per allocation, which have to satisfy the following rules, per Alice Ryhl [1]: 1. The alignment is a power of two. 2. The size is non-zero. 3. When you round up the size to the next multiple of the alignment, then it must not overflow the signed type isize / ssize_t. In order to map this to kmalloc()'s guarantees, some requested allocation sizes have to be padded to the next power-of-two size [2]. For example, an allocation of size 96 and alignment of 32 will be padded to an allocation of size 128, because the existing kmalloc-96 bucket doesn't guarantee alignent above ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. Without slab debugging active, the layout of the kmalloc-96 slabs however naturally align the objects to 32 bytes, so extending the size to 128 bytes is wasteful. To improve the situation we can extend the kmalloc() alignment guarantees in a way that 1) doesn't change the current slab layout (and thus does not increase internal fragmentation) when slab debugging is not active 2) reduces waste in the Rust allocator use case 3) is a superset of the current guarantee for power-of-two sizes. The extended guarantee is that alignment is at least the largest power-of-two divisor of the requested size. For power-of-two sizes the largest divisor is the size itself, but let's keep this case documented separately for clarity. For current kmalloc size buckets, it means kmalloc-96 will guarantee alignment of 32 bytes and kmalloc-196 will guarantee 64 bytes. This covers the rules 1 and 2 above of Rust's API as long as the size is a multiple of the alignment. The Rust layer should now only need to round up the size to the next multiple if it isn't, while enforcing the rule 3. Implementation-wise, this changes the alignment calculation in create_boot_cache(). While at it also do the calulation only for caches with the SLAB_KMALLOC flag, because the function is also used to create the initial kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node caches, where no alignment guarantee is necessary. In the Rust allocator's krealloc_aligned(), remove the code that padded sizes to the next power of two (suggested by Alice Ryhl) as it's no longer necessary with the new guarantees. Reported-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reported-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAH5fLggjrbdUuT-H-5vbQfMazjRDpp2%2Bk3%3DYhPyS17ezEqxwcw@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAH5fLghsZRemYUwVvhk77o6y1foqnCeDzW4WZv6ScEWna2+_jw@mail.gmail.com/ [2] Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2024-07-03 09:25:21 +02:00
mm, sl[aou]b: guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc(power-of-two) In most configurations, kmalloc() happens to return naturally aligned (i.e. aligned to the block size itself) blocks for power of two sizes. That means some kmalloc() users might unknowingly rely on that alignment, until stuff breaks when the kernel is built with e.g. CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG or CONFIG_SLOB, and blocks stop being aligned. Then developers have to devise workaround such as own kmem caches with specified alignment [1], which is not always practical, as recently evidenced in [2]. The topic has been discussed at LSF/MM 2019 [3]. Adding a 'kmalloc_aligned()' variant would not help with code unknowingly relying on the implicit alignment. For slab implementations it would either require creating more kmalloc caches, or allocate a larger size and only give back part of it. That would be wasteful, especially with a generic alignment parameter (in contrast with a fixed alignment to size). Ideally we should provide to mm users what they need without difficult workarounds or own reimplementations, so let's make the kmalloc() alignment to size explicitly guaranteed for power-of-two sizes under all configurations. What this means for the three available allocators? * SLAB object layout happens to be mostly unchanged by the patch. The implicitly provided alignment could be compromised with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB due to redzoning, however SLAB disables redzoning for caches with alignment larger than unsigned long long. Practically on at least x86 this includes kmalloc caches as they use cache line alignment, which is larger than that. Still, this patch ensures alignment on all arches and cache sizes. * SLUB layout is also unchanged unless redzoning is enabled through CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and boot parameter for the particular kmalloc cache. With this patch, explicit alignment is guaranteed with redzoning as well. This will result in more memory being wasted, but that should be acceptable in a debugging scenario. * SLOB has no implicit alignment so this patch adds it explicitly for kmalloc(). The potential downside is increased fragmentation. While pathological allocation scenarios are certainly possible, in my testing, after booting a x86_64 kernel+userspace with virtme, around 16MB memory was consumed by slab pages both before and after the patch, with difference in the noise. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/c3157c8e8e0e7588312b40c853f65c02fe6c957a.1566399731.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190225040904.5557-1-ming.lei@redhat.com/ [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/787740/ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: documentation fixlet, per Matthew] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826111627.7505-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-10-06 17:58:45 -07:00
mm: slab: provide krealloc_array() When allocating an array of elements, users should check for multiplication overflow or preferably use one of the provided helpers like: kmalloc_array(). There's no krealloc_array() counterpart but there are many users who use regular krealloc() to reallocate arrays. Let's provide an actual krealloc_array() implementation. While at it: add some documentation regarding krealloc. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201109110654.12547-3-brgl@bgdev.pl Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Christian Knig <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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