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authorShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>2018-04-05 16:21:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-05 21:36:24 -0700
commitf9e13c0a5a33d1eaec374d6d4dab53a4f72756a0 (patch)
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slab, slub: skip unnecessary kasan_cache_shutdown()
The kasan quarantine is designed to delay freeing slab objects to catch use-after-free. The quarantine can be large (several percent of machine memory size). When kmem_caches are deleted related objects are flushed from the quarantine but this requires scanning the entire quarantine which can be very slow. We have seen the kernel busily working on this while holding slab_mutex and badly affecting cache_reaper, slabinfo readers and memcg kmem cache creations. It can easily reproduced by following script: yes . | head -1000000 | xargs stat > /dev/null for i in `seq 1 10`; do seq 500 | (cd /cg/memory && xargs mkdir) seq 500 | xargs -I{} sh -c 'echo $BASHPID > \ /cg/memory/{}/tasks && exec stat .' > /dev/null seq 500 | (cd /cg/memory && xargs rmdir) done The busy stack: kasan_cache_shutdown shutdown_cache memcg_destroy_kmem_caches mem_cgroup_css_free css_free_rwork_fn process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork This patch is based on the observation that if the kmem_cache to be destroyed is empty then there should not be any objects of this cache in the quarantine. Without the patch the script got stuck for couple of hours. With the patch the script completed within a second. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180327230603.54721-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> 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>
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