From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:56:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c208e95d-9aa9-476f-9dee-0242a2d6a24f@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZnKqPqlPD3Rl04DZ@pc636>
On 6/19/24 11:51 AM, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 09:48:49AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 11:31:00AM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
>> > > On 6/17/24 8:42 PM, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
>> > > >> +
>> > > >> + s = container_of(work, struct kmem_cache, async_destroy_work);
>> > > >> +
>> > > >> + // XXX use the real kmem_cache_free_barrier() or similar thing here
>> > > > It implies that we need to introduce kfree_rcu_barrier(), a new API, which i
>> > > > wanted to avoid initially.
>> > >
>> > > I wanted to avoid new API or flags for kfree_rcu() users and this would
>> > > be achieved. The barrier is used internally so I don't consider that an
>> > > API to avoid. How difficult is the implementation is another question,
>> > > depending on how the current batching works. Once (if) we have sheaves
>> > > proven to work and move kfree_rcu() fully into SLUB, the barrier might
>> > > also look different and hopefully easier. So maybe it's not worth to
>> > > invest too much into that barrier and just go for the potentially
>> > > longer, but easier to implement?
>> > >
>> > Right. I agree here. If the cache is not empty, OK, we just defer the
>> > work, even we can use a big 21 seconds delay, after that we just "warn"
>> > if it is still not empty and leave it as it is, i.e. emit a warning and
>> > we are done.
>> >
>> > Destroying the cache is not something that must happen right away.
>>
>> OK, I have to ask...
>>
>> Suppose that the cache is created and destroyed by a module and
>> init/cleanup time, respectively. Suppose that this module is rmmod'ed
>> then very quickly insmod'ed.
>>
>> Do we need to fail the insmod if the kmem_cache has not yet been fully
>> cleaned up? If not, do we have two versions of the same kmem_cache in
>> /proc during the overlap time?
>>
> No fail :) If same cache is created several times, its s->refcount gets
> increased, so, it does not create two entries in the "slabinfo". But i
> agree that your point is good! We need to be carefully with removing and
> simultaneous creating.
Note that this merging may be disabled or not happen due to various flags on
the cache being incompatible with it. And I want to actually make sure it
never happens for caches being already destroyed as that would lead to
use-after-free (the workfn doesn't recheck the refcount in case a merge
would happen during the grace period)
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -150,9 +150,10 @@ int slab_unmergeable(struct kmem_cache *s)
#endif
/*
- * We may have set a slab to be unmergeable during bootstrap.
+ * We may have set a cache to be unmergeable during bootstrap.
+ * 0 is for cache being destroyed asynchronously
*/
- if (s->refcount < 0)
+ if (s->refcount <= 0)
return 1;
return 0;
> From the first glance, there is a refcounter and a global "slab_mutex"
> which is used to protect a critical section. Destroying is almost fully
> protected(as noted above, by a global mutex) with one exception, it is:
>
> static void kmem_cache_release(struct kmem_cache *s)
> {
> if (slab_state >= FULL) {
> sysfs_slab_unlink(s);
> sysfs_slab_release(s);
> } else {
> slab_kmem_cache_release(s);
> }
> }
>
> this one can race, IMO.
>
> --
> Uladzislau Rezki
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-19 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-09 8:27 Julia Lawall
2024-06-09 8:27 ` [PATCH 01/14] wireguard: allowedips: " Julia Lawall
2024-06-09 14:32 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-09 14:36 ` Julia Lawall
2024-06-10 20:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-10 20:59 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-12 21:33 ` [PATCH 00/14] " Jakub Kicinski
2024-06-12 22:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-12 22:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
[not found] ` <7e58e73d-4173-49fe-8f05-38a3699bc2c1@kernel.dk>
2024-06-12 23:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-12 23:31 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-13 0:31 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-13 3:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-13 12:22 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-13 12:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-13 14:11 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-13 15:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-17 15:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-17 16:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-17 17:23 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-17 18:42 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-17 21:08 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-18 9:31 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-18 16:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-18 17:21 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-18 17:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-19 9:28 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-19 16:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-21 9:32 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-19 9:51 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-19 9:56 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2024-06-19 11:22 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-17 18:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-17 21:34 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-13 14:17 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-06-13 14:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-13 11:58 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-13 12:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-13 13:06 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-13 15:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-13 17:38 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-13 17:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-13 17:58 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-13 18:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-14 12:35 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-14 14:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-14 14:50 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-14 19:33 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-17 13:50 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-17 14:56 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-17 16:30 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-17 16:33 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-17 16:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-17 17:04 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-17 21:19 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-06-17 16:42 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-17 16:57 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-06-17 17:19 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-06-17 14:37 ` Vlastimil Babka
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