On 2023/7/24 17:43, Qi Zheng wrote:
Currently, the shrinker instances can be divided into the following three
types:
a) global shrinker instance statically defined in the kernel, such as
workingset_shadow_shrinker.
b) global shrinker instance statically defined in the kernel modules, such
as mmu_shrinker in x86.
c) shrinker instance embedded in other structures.
For case a, the memory of shrinker instance is never freed. For case b,
the memory of shrinker instance will be freed after synchronize_rcu() when
the module is unloaded. For case c, the memory of shrinker instance will
be freed along with the structure it is embedded in.
In preparation for implementing lockless slab shrink, we need to
dynamically allocate those shrinker instances in case c, then the memory
can be dynamically freed alone by calling kfree_rcu().
So this commit adds the following new APIs for dynamically allocating
shrinker, and add a private_data field to struct shrinker to record and
get the original embedded structure.
1. shrinker_alloc()
Used to allocate shrinker instance itself and related memory, it will
return a pointer to the shrinker instance on success and NULL on failure.
2. shrinker_free_non_registered()
Used to destroy the non-registered shrinker instance.
At least I don't like this name. I know you want to tell others
this function only should be called when shrinker has not been
registed but allocated. Maybe shrinker_free() is more simple.
And and a comment to tell the users when to use it.
3. shrinker_register()
Used to register the shrinker instance, which is same as the current
register_shrinker_prepared().
4. shrinker_unregister()
Used to unregister and free the shrinker instance.
In order to simplify shrinker-related APIs and make shrinker more
independent of other kernel mechanisms, subsequent submissions will use
the above API to convert all shrinkers (including case a and b) to
dynamically allocated, and then remove all existing APIs.
This will also have another advantage mentioned by Dave Chinner:
```
The other advantage of this is that it will break all the existing
out of tree code and third party modules using the old API and will
no longer work with a kernel using lockless slab shrinkers. They
need to break (both at the source and binary levels) to stop bad
things from happening due to using uncoverted shrinkers in the new
setup.
```
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/shrinker.h | 6 +++
mm/shrinker.c | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 119 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
index 961cb84e51f5..296f5e163861 100644
--- a/include/linux/shrinker.h
+++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ struct shrinker {
int seeks; /* seeks to recreate an obj */
unsigned flags;
+ void *private_data;
+
/* These are for internal use */
struct list_head list;
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
@@ -98,6 +100,10 @@ struct shrinker {
unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
int priority);
+struct shrinker *shrinker_alloc(unsigned int flags, const char *fmt, ...);
+void shrinker_free_non_registered(struct shrinker *shrinker);
+void shrinker_register(struct shrinker *shrinker);
+void shrinker_unregister(struct shrinker *shrinker);
extern int __printf(2, 3) prealloc_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker,
const char *fmt, ...);
diff --git a/mm/shrinker.c b/mm/shrinker.c
index 0a32ef42f2a7..d820e4cc5806 100644
--- a/mm/shrinker.c
+++ b/mm/shrinker.c
@@ -548,6 +548,119 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
return freed;
}
+struct shrinker *shrinker_alloc(unsigned int flags, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ struct shrinker *shrinker;
+ unsigned int size;
+ va_list __maybe_unused ap;
+ int err;
+
+ shrinker = kzalloc(sizeof(struct shrinker), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!shrinker)
+ return NULL;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG
+ va_start(ap, fmt);
+ shrinker->name = kvasprintf_const(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, ap);
+ va_end(ap);
+ if (!shrinker->name)
+ goto err_name;
+#endif
So why not introduce another helper to handle this and declare it
as a void function when !CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG? Something like the
following:
#ifdef CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG
static int shrinker_debugfs_name_alloc(struct shrinker *shrinker, const
char *fmt,
va_list vargs)
{
shrinker->name = kvasprintf_const(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
return shrinker->name ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}
#else
static int shrinker_debugfs_name_alloc(struct shrinker *shrinker, const
char *fmt,
va_list vargs)
{
return 0;
}
#endif
+ shrinker->flags = flags;
+
+ if (flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE) {
+ err = prealloc_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
+ if (err == -ENOSYS)
+ shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE;
+ else if (err == 0)
+ goto done;
+ else
+ goto err_flags;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * The nr_deferred is available on per memcg level for memcg aware
+ * shrinkers, so only allocate nr_deferred in the following cases:
+ * - non memcg aware shrinkers
+ * - !CONFIG_MEMCG
+ * - memcg is disabled by kernel command line
+ */
+ size = sizeof(*shrinker->nr_deferred);
+ if (flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE)
+ size *= nr_node_ids;
+
+ shrinker->nr_deferred = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!shrinker->nr_deferred)
+ goto err_flags;
+
+done:
+ return shrinker;
+
+err_flags:
+#ifdef CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG
+ kfree_const(shrinker->name);
+ shrinker->name = NULL;
This could be shrinker_debugfs_name_free()
+err_name:
+#endif
+ kfree(shrinker);
+ return NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrinker_alloc);
+
+void shrinker_free_non_registered(struct shrinker *shrinker)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG
+ kfree_const(shrinker->name);
+ shrinker->name = NULL;
This could be shrinker_debugfs_name_free()
+#endif
+ if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE) {
+ down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
+ unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
+ up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
+ }
+
+ kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
+ shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL;
+
+ kfree(shrinker);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrinker_free_non_registered);
+
+void shrinker_register(struct shrinker *shrinker)
+{
+ down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
+ list_add_tail(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list);
+ shrinker->flags |= SHRINKER_REGISTERED;
+ shrinker_debugfs_add(shrinker);
+ up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrinker_register);
+
+void shrinker_unregister(struct shrinker *shrinker)
You have made all shrinkers to be dynamically allocated, so
we should prevent users from allocating shrinkers statically and
use this function to unregister it. It is better to add a
flag like SHRINKER_ALLOCATED which is set in shrinker_alloc(),
and check whether it is set in shrinker_unregister(), if not
maybe a warning should be added to tell the users what happened.
+{
+ struct dentry *debugfs_entry;
+ int debugfs_id;
+
+ if (!shrinker || !(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_REGISTERED))
+ return;
+
+ down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
+ list_del(&shrinker->list);
+ shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_REGISTERED;
+ if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE)
+ unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
+ debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_detach(shrinker, &debugfs_id);
In the internal of this function, you also could use
shrinker_debugfs_name_free().
Thanks.
+ up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
+
+ shrinker_debugfs_remove(debugfs_entry, debugfs_id);
+
+ kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
+ shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL;
+
+ kfree(shrinker);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrinker_unregister);
+
/*
* Add a shrinker callback to be called from the vm.
*/
