[PATCH v2] mm/slub: mark racy accesses on slab->slabs

linke li
2024-03-21T03:48:45Z

The reads of slab->slabs are racy because it may be changed by
put_cpu_partial concurrently. In slabs_cpu_partial_show() and
show_slab_objects(), slab->slabs is only used for showing information.

Data-racy reads from shared variables that are used only for diagnostic
purposes should typically use data_race(), since it is normally not a
problem if the values are off by a little.

This patch is aimed at reducing the number of benign races reported by
KCSAN in order to focus future debugging effort on harmful races.

Signed-off-by: linke li <lilinke99@qq.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
---
mm/slub.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 2ef88bbf56a3..0d700f6ca547 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -6052,7 +6052,7 @@ static ssize_t show_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
else if (flags & SO_OBJECTS)
WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
else
- x = slab->slabs;
+ x = data_race(slab->slabs);
total += x;
nodes[node] += x;
}
@@ -6257,7 +6257,7 @@ static ssize_t slabs_cpu_partial_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf)
slab = slub_percpu_partial(per_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab, cpu));

if (slab)
- slabs += slab->slabs;
+ slabs += data_race(slab->slabs);
}
#endif

@@ -6271,7 +6271,7 @@ static ssize_t slabs_cpu_partial_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf)

slab = slub_percpu_partial(per_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab, cpu));
if (slab) {
- slabs = READ_ONCE(slab->slabs);
+ slabs = data_race(slab->slabs);
objects = (slabs * oo_objects(s->oo)) / 2;
len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, len, " C%d=%d(%d)",
cpu, objects, slabs);
--
2.39.3 (Apple Git-146)