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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 v3 01/13] mm/slab: skip kfence objects in allocation profiling
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:53:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260727-b4-objext_split-v3-1-c29ef0f1f257@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260727-b4-objext_split-v3-0-c29ef0f1f257@kernel.org>

struct kfence_metadata only contains struct slabobj_ext with
CONFIG_MEMCG, which is then used for the "fake" slab's obj_exts field.
If CONFIG_MEMCG is enabled, the struct can also end up used for memory
allocation profiling. If CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled but profiling is
enabled, it will end up allocating its obj_exts via
prepare_slab_obj_exts_hook() and assigning them to the fake struct slab.
These will probably then never be freed.

So things sorta work, but not always in the intended and optimal way.
The upcoming changes to slabobj_ext layout would additionally need a
proper refactoring to keep working.

However, there's little benefit in accounting KFENCE objects. KFENCE
allocations are rare and there can be only CONFIG_KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS
(default to 255) outstanding ones at any time. For any callsite
prominent enough in the memory allocation profiling stats, allocations
served from KFENCE will be lost in the noise.

Thus let's not complicate things and simply stop accounting KFENCE
objects in allocation profiling and skip them in the related slab hooks.

We also need to skip kfence objects in mark_obj_codetag_empty() in case
a sheaf is allocated from kfence, per earlier sashiko review.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/mm/allocation-profiling.rst | 7 +++++++
 mm/slub.c                                 | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/mm/allocation-profiling.rst b/Documentation/mm/allocation-profiling.rst
index 5389d241176a..d02eb54ee8f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/allocation-profiling.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/allocation-profiling.rst
@@ -112,3 +112,10 @@ break it out by rhashtable type.
 
 - Then, use the following form for your allocations:
   alloc_hooks_tag(ht->your_saved_tag, kmalloc_noprof(...))
+
+Notes
+=====
+
+- When a slab object is allocated from KFENCE, its accounting is skipped.
+  KFENCE allocations are rare and limited to a small number, so this omission
+  is negligible.
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 0337e60db5ac..d702d273253c 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2067,6 +2067,9 @@ static inline void mark_obj_codetag_empty(const void *obj)
 	struct slab *obj_slab;
 	unsigned long slab_exts;
 
+	if (is_kfence_address(obj))
+		return;
+
 	obj_slab = virt_to_slab(obj);
 	slab_exts = slab_obj_exts(obj_slab);
 	if (slab_exts) {
@@ -2352,6 +2355,9 @@ __alloc_tagging_slab_alloc_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, gfp_t flags,
 	if (alloc_flags & SLAB_ALLOC_NO_RECURSE)
 		return;
 
+	if (is_kfence_address(object))
+		return;
+
 	slab = virt_to_slab(object);
 	obj_exts = prepare_slab_obj_exts_hook(s, slab, flags, alloc_flags, object);
 	/*
@@ -2399,6 +2405,9 @@ __alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, void **p
 	for (i = 0; i < objects; i++) {
 		unsigned int off = obj_to_index(s, slab, p[i]);
 
+		if (is_kfence_address(p[i]))
+			continue;
+
 		alloc_tag_sub(&slab_obj_ext(slab, obj_exts, off)->ref, s->size);
 	}
 	put_slab_obj_exts(obj_exts);

-- 
2.55.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-27 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-27 12:53 [PATCH v3 00/13] mm/slab, alloc_tag: reduce obj_ext memory waste Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:53 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) [this message]
2026-07-27 12:53 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] mm/slab: remove objs_per_slab() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:53 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] mm: move struct slabobj_ext to mm/slab.h Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:53 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] mm/slab: make slab_obj_ext() determine object index Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:53 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.objcg access Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.ref access Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] mm/slab: replace slab.stride with obj_exts_in_object Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] mm/slab: change struct slabobj_ext to a union Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] mm/slab: introduce slab_obj_ext_has_codetag() Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] mm/slab: reduce slabobj_ext memory with allocation profiling disabled Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 14:07   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] mm/slab: add cache_ and slab_needs_objcg() helpers Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] mm/slab: stop allocating objcg pointers when unnecessary Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-07-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] mm/slab, kfence, memcg: completely remove obj_ext for kfence objects Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)

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