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From: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
To: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	 Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	 Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	 "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 12/12] mm/slab: stop allocating objcg pointers when unnecessary
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:10:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260715-b4-objext_split-v1-12-9a49c4ccf4c3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260715-b4-objext_split-v1-0-9a49c4ccf4c3@kernel.org>

Start using the slab_needs_objcg() helper to calculate slabobj_ext size.
Caches that we know to never need objcg pointers (currently
KMALLOC_NORMAL caches) will thus stop wasting memory on them when memory
allocation profiling is enabled.

For things to work properly, we need to also add slab_needs_objcg()
checks to mem_cgroup_from_obj_slab() and memcg_slab_free_hook(), because
when obj_exts array exists for a slab only due to mem_alloc profiling,
we would otherwise attempt to access a non-existing objcg pointer in
that slab.

The function __memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook() should not be possible to
call for a slab where slab_needs_objcg() is false, but add a DEBUG_VM
check there to prevent breaking this assumption accidentally.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |  6 ++++++
 mm/slab.h       | 12 ++++++++++--
 mm/slub.c       |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 6303a2b1a9d0..09659722ec85 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2871,6 +2871,9 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_obj_slab(struct slab *slab, void *p)
 	if (!obj_exts)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (!slab_needs_objcg(slab))
+		return NULL;
+
 	get_slab_obj_exts(obj_exts);
 	obj_ext = slab_obj_ext(slab->slab_cache, slab, obj_exts, p);
 	objcg = *slab_obj_ext_objcgp(obj_ext);
@@ -3581,6 +3584,9 @@ bool __memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, struct list_lru *lru,
 
 		slab = virt_to_slab(p[i]);
 
+		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) && WARN_ON_ONCE(!slab_needs_objcg(slab)))
+			continue;
+
 		if (!slab_obj_exts(slab) &&
 		    alloc_slab_obj_exts(slab, s, flags, slab_alloc_flags)) {
 			continue;
diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 948d075cdbef..072cc2506756 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -622,7 +622,15 @@ static inline size_t static_obj_ext_size(void)
 
 static inline size_t slab_obj_ext_size(struct slab *slab)
 {
-	return static_obj_ext_size();
+	size_t sz = 0;
+
+	if (slab_needs_objcg(slab))
+		sz += 1;
+
+	if (slab_obj_ext_has_codetag())
+		sz += 1;
+
+	return sizeof(struct slabobj_ext) * sz;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_OBJ_EXT
@@ -741,7 +749,7 @@ static inline struct obj_cgroup **slab_obj_ext_objcgp(struct slabobj_ext *obj_ex
 static inline union codetag_ref *
 slab_obj_ext_codetag_ref(struct slab *slab, struct slabobj_ext *obj_ext)
 {
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMCG))
+	if (slab_needs_objcg(slab))
 		obj_ext += 1;
 
 	return &obj_ext->_ctref;
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 771d73abacb6..09c4931e5435 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2503,6 +2503,9 @@ void memcg_slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, void **p,
 	if (likely(!obj_exts))
 		return;
 
+	if (!slab_needs_objcg(slab))
+		return;
+
 	get_slab_obj_exts(obj_exts);
 	__memcg_slab_free_hook(s, slab, p, objects, obj_exts);
 	put_slab_obj_exts(obj_exts);

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-15 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-15 10:10 [PATCH RFC 00/12] mm/slab, alloc_tag: reduce obj_ext memory waste Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 01/12] mm/slab: skip kfence objects in allocation profiling Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-15 16:02   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-16  9:11     ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16 15:24       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 02/12] mm/slab: remove objs_per_slab() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-15 16:13   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 03/12] mm: move struct slabobj_ext to mm/slab.h Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16  0:56   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 04/12] mm/slab: make slab_obj_ext() determine object index Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16  1:02   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 05/12] mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.objcg access Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16  1:27   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-16 13:58     ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16 15:27       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 06/12] mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.ref access Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16  1:28   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 07/12] mm/slab: replace slab.stride with obj_exts_in_object Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16  1:44   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 08/12] mm/slab: change struct slabobj_ext to a union Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16  4:11   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-16 14:43     ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16 15:28       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 09/12] mm/slab: introduce slab_obj_ext_has_codetag() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16  4:25   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-16 14:47     ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 10/12] mm/slab: reduce slabobj_ext memory with allocation profiling disabled Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16  4:30   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` [PATCH RFC 11/12] mm/slab: add slab_needs_objcg() helper Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16  4:36   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 10:10 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) [this message]
2026-07-16  4:46   ` [PATCH RFC 12/12] mm/slab: stop allocating objcg pointers when unnecessary Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-16 15:08     ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-16 15:32       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-15 15:32 ` [PATCH RFC 00/12] mm/slab, alloc_tag: reduce obj_ext memory waste Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-07-16  3:28   ` Harry Yoo
2026-07-16  4:55     ` Suren Baghdasaryan

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