The patch titled
Subject: mm, slab, slub: stop taking memory hotplug lock
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-slab-slub-stop-taking-memory-hotplug-lock.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slab-slub-stop-taking-memory-hotplug-lock.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slab-slub-stop-taking-memory-hotplug-lock.patch
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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, slab, slub: stop taking memory hotplug lock
Since commit 03afc0e25f7f ("slab: get_online_mems for
kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink}") we are taking memory hotplug lock for
SLAB and SLUB when creating, destroying or shrinking a cache. It is quite
a heavy lock and it's best to avoid it if possible, as we had several
issues with lockdep complaining about ordering in the past, see e.g.
e4f8e513c3d3 ("mm/slub: fix a deadlock in show_slab_objects()").
The problem scenario in 03afc0e25f7f (solved by the memory hotplug lock)
can be summarized as follows: while there's slab_mutex synchronizing new
kmem cache creation and SLUB's MEM_GOING_ONLINE callback
slab_mem_going_online_callback(), we may miss creation of kmem_cache_node
for the hotplugged node in the new kmem cache, because the hotplug
callback doesn't yet see the new cache, and cache creation in
init_kmem_cache_nodes() only inits kmem_cache_node for nodes in the
N_NORMAL_MEMORY nodemask, which however may not yet include the new node,
as that happens only later after the MEM_GOING_ONLINE callback.
Instead of using get/put_online_mems(), the problem can be solved by SLUB
maintaining its own nodemask of nodes for which it has allocated the
per-node kmem_cache_node structures. This nodemask would generally mirror
the N_NORMAL_MEMORY nodemask, but would be updated only in under SLUB's
control in its memory hotplug callbacks under the slab_mutex. This patch
adds such nodemask and its handling.
Commit 03afc0e25f7f mentiones "issues like [the one above]", but there
don't appear to be further issues. All the paths (shared for SLAB and
SLUB) taking the memory hotplug locks are also taking the slab_mutex,
except kmem_cache_shrink() where 03afc0e25f7f replaced slab_mutex with
get/put_online_mems().
We however cannot simply restore slab_mutex in kmem_cache_shrink(), as
SLUB can enters the function from a write to sysfs 'shrink' file, thus
holding kernfs lock, and in kmem_cache_create() the kernfs lock is nested
within slab_mutex. But on closer inspection we don't actually need to
protect kmem_cache_shrink() from hotplug callbacks: While SLUB's
__kmem_cache_shrink() does for_each_kmem_cache_node(), missing a new node
added in parallel hotplug is not fatal, and parallel hotremove does not
free kmem_cache_node's anymore after the previous patch, so use-after free
cannot happen. The per-node shrinking itself is protected by
n->list_lock. Same is true for SLAB, and SLOB is no-op.
SLAB also doesn't need the memory hotplug locking, which it only gained by
03afc0e25f7f through the shared paths in slab_common.c. Its memory
hotplug callbacks are also protected by slab_mutex against races with
these paths. The problem of SLUB relying on N_NORMAL_MEMORY doesn't apply
to SLAB, as its setup_kmem_cache_nodes relies on N_ONLINE, and the new
node is already set there during the MEM_GOING_ONLINE callback, so no
special care is needed for SLAB.
As such, this patch removes all get/put_online_mems() usage by the slab
subsystem.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210113131634.3671-3-vbabka@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab_common.c | 8 ++------
mm/slub.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/slab_common.c~mm-slab-slub-stop-taking-memory-hotplug-lock
+++ a/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ kmem_cache_create_usercopy(const char *n
int err;
get_online_cpus();
- get_online_mems();
mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
@@ -360,7 +359,6 @@ kmem_cache_create_usercopy(const char *n
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
- put_online_mems();
put_online_cpus();
if (err) {
@@ -487,7 +485,6 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cach
return;
get_online_cpus();
- get_online_mems();
mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
@@ -504,7 +501,6 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cach
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
- put_online_mems();
put_online_cpus();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_destroy);
@@ -523,10 +519,10 @@ int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache
int ret;
get_online_cpus();
- get_online_mems();
+
kasan_cache_shrink(cachep);
ret = __kmem_cache_shrink(cachep);
- put_online_mems();
+
put_online_cpus();
return ret;
}
--- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slab-slub-stop-taking-memory-hotplug-lock
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ static inline void stat(const struct kme
#endif
}
+/*
+ * Tracks for which NUMA nodes we have kmem_cache_nodes allocated.
+ * Corresponds to node_state[N_NORMAL_MEMORY], but can temporarily
+ * differ during memory hotplug/hotremove operations.
+ * Protected by slab_mutex.
+ */
+static nodemask_t slab_nodes;
+
/********************************************************************
* Core slab cache functions
*******************************************************************/
@@ -2681,7 +2689,7 @@ static void *___slab_alloc(struct kmem_c
* ignore the node constraint
*/
if (unlikely(node != NUMA_NO_NODE &&
- !node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY)))
+ !node_isset(node, slab_nodes)))
node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
goto new_slab;
}
@@ -2692,7 +2700,7 @@ redo:
* same as above but node_match() being false already
* implies node != NUMA_NO_NODE
*/
- if (!node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY)) {
+ if (!node_isset(node, slab_nodes)) {
node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
goto redo;
} else {
@@ -3580,7 +3588,7 @@ static int init_kmem_cache_nodes(struct
{
int node;
- for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) {
+ for_each_node_mask(node, slab_nodes) {
struct kmem_cache_node *n;
if (slab_state == DOWN) {
@@ -4234,6 +4242,7 @@ static void slab_mem_offline_callback(vo
return;
mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
+ node_clear(offline_node, slab_nodes);
/*
* We no longer free kmem_cache_node structures here, as it would be
* racy with all get_node() users, and infeasible to protect them with
@@ -4283,6 +4292,11 @@ static int slab_mem_going_online_callbac
init_kmem_cache_node(n);
s->node[nid] = n;
}
+ /*
+ * Any cache created after this point will also have kmem_cache_node
+ * initialized for the new node.
+ */
+ node_set(nid, slab_nodes);
out:
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
return ret;
@@ -4363,6 +4377,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
{
static __initdata struct kmem_cache boot_kmem_cache,
boot_kmem_cache_node;
+ int node;
if (debug_guardpage_minorder())
slub_max_order = 0;
@@ -4370,6 +4385,13 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
kmem_cache_node = &boot_kmem_cache_node;
kmem_cache = &boot_kmem_cache;
+ /*
+ * Initialize the nodemask for which we will allocate per node
+ * structures. Here we don't need taking slab_mutex yet.
+ */
+ for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY)
+ node_set(node, slab_nodes);
+
create_boot_cache(kmem_cache_node, "kmem_cache_node",
sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node), SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, 0, 0);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from vbabka@xxxxxxx are
maintainers-add-myself-as-slab-allocators-maintainer.patch
mm-slub-stop-freeing-kmem_cache_node-structures-on-node-offline.patch
mm-slab-slub-stop-taking-memory-hotplug-lock.patch
mm-slab-slub-stop-taking-cpu-hotplug-lock.patch
