From: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
To: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, Shengming Hu <hu.shengming@zte.com.cn>,
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,
"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/slab: extract __free_to_pcs_batch() from free_to_pcs_bulk()
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:16:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260707-slab-simplify-bulk-pcs-v1-1-4850dbe0d904@kernel.org> (raw)
It has been noted that free_to_pcs_bulk() is difficult to follow, with a
number of goto labels, and this has contributed to two memory leak bugs
in there.
Extract part of the code to __free_to_pcs_batch(), which focuses only on
freeing free-hook-processed local objects to a percpu sheaf, and
returning how many were freed. Zero means a trylock failure or no empty
sheaf available, and thus the caller should fallback to
__kmem_cache_free_bulk().
Make free_to_pcs_bulk() call this in a while loop, removing all goto
labels from the function. __free_to_pcs_batch() retains two rather
straightforward ones.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
---
A followup refactoring to Shengming's fix.
---
mm/slub.c | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 65febe957886..3f13f497aab4 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -6203,51 +6203,21 @@ static __always_inline bool can_free_to_pcs(struct slab *slab)
}
/*
- * Bulk free objects to the percpu sheaves.
- * Unlike free_to_pcs() this includes the calls to all necessary hooks
- * and the fallback to freeing to slab pages.
+ * Try to free as many objects (already processed by free hooks) as possible to
+ * a single per-cpu sheaf.
+ *
+ * Returns how many objects were freed. Zero means failure and the caller should
+ * fall back to __kmem_cache_free_bulk().
*/
-static void free_to_pcs_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, void **p)
+static unsigned int __free_to_pcs_batch(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, void **p)
{
struct slub_percpu_sheaves *pcs;
struct slab_sheaf *main, *empty;
- bool init = slab_want_init_on_free(s);
- unsigned int batch, i = 0;
struct node_barn *barn;
- void *remote_objects[PCS_BATCH_MAX];
- unsigned int remote_nr = 0;
-
- while (i < size) {
- struct slab *slab = virt_to_slab(p[i]);
-
- memcg_slab_free_hook(s, slab, p + i, 1);
- alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook(s, slab, p + i, 1);
-
- if (unlikely(!slab_free_hook(s, p[i], init, false))) {
- p[i] = p[--size];
- continue;
- }
-
- if (unlikely(!can_free_to_pcs(slab))) {
- remote_objects[remote_nr] = p[i];
- p[i] = p[--size];
- if (++remote_nr >= PCS_BATCH_MAX) {
- __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, remote_nr, &remote_objects[0]);
- stat_add(s, FREE_SLOWPATH, remote_nr);
- remote_nr = 0;
- }
- continue;
- }
-
- i++;
- }
-
- if (!size)
- goto flush_remote;
+ unsigned int batch;
-next_batch:
if (!local_trylock(&s->cpu_sheaves->lock))
- goto fallback;
+ return 0;
pcs = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_sheaves);
@@ -6293,29 +6263,65 @@ static void free_to_pcs_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, void **p)
stat_add(s, FREE_FASTPATH, batch);
- if (batch < size) {
- p += batch;
- size -= batch;
- goto next_batch;
+ return batch;
+
+no_empty:
+ local_unlock(&s->cpu_sheaves->lock);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Bulk free objects to the percpu sheaves.
+ * Unlike free_to_pcs() this includes the calls to all necessary hooks
+ * and the fallback to freeing to slab pages.
+ */
+static void free_to_pcs_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, void **p)
+{
+ bool init = slab_want_init_on_free(s);
+ void *remote_objects[PCS_BATCH_MAX];
+ unsigned int remote_nr = 0;
+
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < size;) {
+ struct slab *slab = virt_to_slab(p[i]);
+
+ memcg_slab_free_hook(s, slab, p + i, 1);
+ alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook(s, slab, p + i, 1);
+
+ if (unlikely(!slab_free_hook(s, p[i], init, false))) {
+ p[i] = p[--size];
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(!can_free_to_pcs(slab))) {
+ remote_objects[remote_nr] = p[i];
+ p[i] = p[--size];
+ if (++remote_nr >= PCS_BATCH_MAX) {
+ __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, remote_nr, &remote_objects[0]);
+ stat_add(s, FREE_SLOWPATH, remote_nr);
+ remote_nr = 0;
+ }
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ i++;
}
- if (remote_nr)
- goto flush_remote;
+ while (size) {
+ unsigned int batch_freed = __free_to_pcs_batch(s, size, p);
- return;
+ if (!batch_freed)
+ break;
-no_empty:
- local_unlock(&s->cpu_sheaves->lock);
+ p += batch_freed;
+ size -= batch_freed;
+ }
- /*
- * if we depleted all empty sheaves in the barn or there are too
- * many full sheaves, free the rest to slab pages
- */
-fallback:
- __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, size, p);
- stat_add(s, FREE_SLOWPATH, size);
+ if (size) {
+ __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, size, p);
+ stat_add(s, FREE_SLOWPATH, size);
+ }
-flush_remote:
if (remote_nr) {
__kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, remote_nr, &remote_objects[0]);
stat_add(s, FREE_SLOWPATH, remote_nr);
---
base-commit: 72bb229f9161a1efcd5df32141b69fcc6ae81a13
change-id: 20260707-slab-simplify-bulk-pcs-a8d0478feef6
Best regards,
--
Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-07 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-07 12:16 Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) [this message]
2026-07-07 15:34 ` [PATCH] mm/slab: extract __free_to_pcs_batch() from free_to_pcs_bulk() hu.shengming
2026-07-08 16:32 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-10 5:18 ` Hao Li
2026-07-10 5:21 ` Hao Li
2026-07-10 9:54 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-10 10:02 ` Harry Yoo
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