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[90.233.218.141]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 38308e7fff4ca-2ec05c8a85esm3330101fa.117.2024.06.13.10.58.19 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:58:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Uladzislau Rezki X-Google-Original-From: Uladzislau Rezki Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:58:17 +0200 To: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback Message-ID: References: <20240609082726.32742-1-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr> <20240612143305.451abf58@kernel.org> <80e03b02-7e24-4342-af0b-ba5117b19828@paulmck-laptop> <7efde25f-6af5-4a67-abea-b26732a8aca1@paulmck-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Olga Kornievskaia , Dai Ngo , Christophe Leroy , coreteam@netfilter.org, "Naveen N. Rao" , Jakub Kicinski , linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux.dev, ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Piggin , linux-can@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Mathieu Desnoyers , Vlastimil Babka , Tom Talpey , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Lai Jiangshan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall , Uladzislau Rezki , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 10:45:59AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 07:38:59PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:06:30AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:06:54PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 05:47:08AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 01:58:59PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 03:37:55PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 02:33:05PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 10:27:12 +0200 Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > > > > > > Since SLOB was removed, it is not necessary to use call_rcu > > > > > > > > > when the callback only performs kmem_cache_free. Use > > > > > > > > > kfree_rcu() directly. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The changes were done using the following Coccinelle semantic patch. > > > > > > > > > This semantic patch is designed to ignore cases where the callback > > > > > > > > > function is used in another way. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How does the discussion on: > > > > > > > > [PATCH] Revert "batman-adv: prefer kfree_rcu() over call_rcu() with free-only callbacks" > > > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240612133357.2596-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue/ > > > > > > > > reflect on this series? IIUC we should hold off.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We do need to hold off for the ones in kernel modules (such as 07/14) > > > > > > > where the kmem_cache is destroyed during module unload. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > OK, I might as well go through them... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [PATCH 01/14] wireguard: allowedips: replace call_rcu by kfree_rcu for simple kmem_cache_free callback > > > > > > > Needs to wait, see wg_allowedips_slab_uninit(). > > > > > > > > > > > > Also, notably, this patch needs additionally: > > > > > > > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c b/drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c > > > > > > index e4e1638fce1b..c95f6937c3f1 100644 > > > > > > --- a/drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c > > > > > > +++ b/drivers/net/wireguard/allowedips.c > > > > > > @@ -377,7 +377,6 @@ int __init wg_allowedips_slab_init(void) > > > > > > > > > > > > void wg_allowedips_slab_uninit(void) > > > > > > { > > > > > > - rcu_barrier(); > > > > > > kmem_cache_destroy(node_cache); > > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > Once kmem_cache_destroy has been fixed to be deferrable. > > > > > > > > > > > > I assume the other patches are similar -- an rcu_barrier() can be > > > > > > removed. So some manual meddling of these might be in order. > > > > > > > > > > Assuming that the deferrable kmem_cache_destroy() is the option chosen, > > > > > agreed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s) > > > > { > > > > int err = -EBUSY; > > > > bool rcu_set; > > > > > > > > if (unlikely(!s) || !kasan_check_byte(s)) > > > > return; > > > > > > > > cpus_read_lock(); > > > > mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); > > > > > > > > rcu_set = s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU; > > > > > > > > s->refcount--; > > > > if (s->refcount) > > > > goto out_unlock; > > > > > > > > err = shutdown_cache(s); > > > > WARN(err, "%s %s: Slab cache still has objects when called from %pS", > > > > __func__, s->name, (void *)_RET_IP_); > > > > ... > > > > cpus_read_unlock(); > > > > if (!err && !rcu_set) > > > > kmem_cache_release(s); > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > so we have SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag that defers freeing slab-pages > > > > and a cache by a grace period. Similar flag can be added, like > > > > SLAB_DESTROY_ONCE_FULLY_FREED, in this case a worker rearm itself > > > > if there are still objects which should be freed. > > > > > > > > Any thoughts here? > > > > > > Wouldn't we also need some additional code to later check for all objects > > > being freed to the slab, whether or not that code is initiated from > > > kmem_cache_destroy()? > > > > > Same away as SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU is handled from the kmem_cache_destroy() function. > > It checks that flag and if it is true and extra worker is scheduled to perform a > > deferred(instead of right away) destroy after rcu_barrier() finishes. > > Like this? > > SLAB_DESTROY_ONCE_FULLY_FREED > > Instead of adding a new kmem_cache_destroy_rcu() > or kmem_cache_destroy_wait() API member, instead add a > SLAB_DESTROY_ONCE_FULLY_FREED flag that can be passed to the > existing kmem_cache_destroy() function.  Use of this flag would > suppress any warnings that would otherwise be issued if there > was still slab memory yet to be freed, and it would also spawn > workqueues (or timers or whatever) to do any needed cleanup work. > > The flag is passed as all others during creating a cache: slab = kmem_cache_create(name, size, ..., SLAB_DESTROY_ONCE_FULLY_FREED | OTHER_FLAGS, NULL); the rest description is correct to me. -- Uladzislau Rezki