Hello, I'm proposing a new iterator and a kfunc for the slab memory allocator to get information of each kmem_cache like in /proc/slabinfo or /sys/kernel/slab in more flexible way. v4 changes) * skip kmem_cache_destroy() in kmem_cache_iter_seq_stop() if possible (Vlastimil) * fix a bug in the kmem_cache_iter_seq_start() for the last entry v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241002065456.1580143-1-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx/ * rework kmem_cache_iter not to hold slab_mutex when running BPF (Alexei) * add virt_addr_valid() check (Alexei) * fix random test failure by running test with the current task (Hyeonggon) v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240927184133.968283-1-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx/ * rename it to "kmem_cache_iter" * fix a build issue * add Acked-by's from Roman and Vlastimil (Thanks!) * add error codes in the test for debugging v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240925223023.735947-1-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx/ My use case is `perf lock contention` tool which shows contended locks but many of them are not global locks and don't have symbols. If it can tranlate the address of the lock in a slab object to the name of the slab, it'd be much more useful. I'm not aware of type information in slab yet, but I was told there's a work to associate BTF ID with it. It'd be definitely helpful to my use case. Probably we need another kfunc to get the start address of the object or the offset in the object from an address if the type info is available. But I want to start with a simple thing first. The kmem_cache_iter iterates kmem_cache objects under slab_mutex and will be useful for userspace to prepare some work for specific slabs like setting up filters in advance. And the bpf_get_kmem_cache() kfunc will return a pointer to a slab from the address of a lock. And the test code is to read from the iterator and make sure it finds a slab cache of the task_struct for the current task. The code is available at 'bpf/slab-iter-v4' branch in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/namhyung/linux-perf.git Thanks, Namhyung Namhyung Kim (3): bpf: Add kmem_cache iterator mm/bpf: Add bpf_get_kmem_cache() kfunc selftests/bpf: Add a test for kmem_cache_iter include/linux/btf_ids.h | 1 + kernel/bpf/Makefile | 1 + kernel/bpf/helpers.c | 1 + kernel/bpf/kmem_cache_iter.c | 174 ++++++++++++++++++ mm/slab_common.c | 19 ++ .../bpf/prog_tests/kmem_cache_iter.c | 64 +++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_iter.h | 7 + .../selftests/bpf/progs/kmem_cache_iter.c | 66 +++++++ 8 files changed, 333 insertions(+) create mode 100644 kernel/bpf/kmem_cache_iter.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/kmem_cache_iter.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/kmem_cache_iter.c base-commit: 9502a7de5a61bec3bda841a830560c5d6d40ecac -- 2.46.1.824.gd892dcdcdd-goog
