Re: [PATCH RFC 12/12] mm/slab: stop allocating objcg pointers when unnecessary

["Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>]

On 7/16/26 06:46, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> Maybe now we should rename static_obj_ext_size() to
> static_obj_ext_max_size() as it reflects the max possible size of
> slabobj_ext?

Hm with _max_size() it doesn't have to be called static_ anymore?

But maybe we can get rid of it completely.

The only caller is calculate_sizes():

#if defined(CONFIG_SLAB_OBJ_EXT) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT)
        if (slab_args_unmergeable(args, s->flags) &&
                        (aligned_size - size >= static_obj_ext_size()))
                s->flags |= SLAB_OBJ_EXT_IN_OBJ;
#endif

We don't have slab pointer to pass to static_obj_ext_max_size().
But we should be able to figure it out from the cache via
cache_needs_objcg().

So we'd need cache_obj_ext_size()?

The static max size here works, but may prevent SLAB_OBJ_EXT_IN_OBJ
needlessly if padding can only fit codetag_ref and not objcg, but
we don't need objcg.
Which is probably only theoretical at this point as kmalloc_normal
caches (that have no objcg) have no padding, at least without
slab_debug. But still.

>> +       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
>>