Re: [PATCH] bcachefs: Avoid a potential memory over-allocation in bch2_printbuf_make_room()

Christophe JAILLET
2023-09-19T18:34:07Z

Le 19/09/2023 à 15:18, Brian Foster a écrit :
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>> kmalloc() and co. don't always allocate a power of 2 number of bytes.
>> There are some special handling for 64<n<=96 and 128<n<=192 cases.
>>
>
> It's not immediately clear to me what you mean by "special handling."
> Taking a quick look at slabinfo, it looks like what you mean is that
> slab rounding is a bit more granular than power of two, particularly in
> these ranges. Is that right? If so, JFYI it would be helpful to describe
> that more explicitly in the commit log.

That's what I tried to do with my 2 phrases.
Sound good and clear to the French speaking man I am :)

Would you mind updating the phrasing yourself?
A trial and error method about wording with a non native English
speaking person can be somewhat a long and boring experience to me.

All what I could propose, with the help of google translate, is:

"
kmalloc() does not necessarily allocate a number of bytes equal to a
power of two. There are special cases for sizes between 65 and 96 and
between 129 and 192. In these cases, 96 and 192 bytes are allocated
respectively.

So, instead of forcing an allocation always equal to a power of two, it
may be interesting to use the same rounding rules as kmalloc(). This
helps avoid over-allocating some memory.

Use kmalloc_size_roundup() instead of roundup_pow_of_two().
"

If this is fine to you I can send a v2 with this wording, otherwise,
either tweak it to what sounds good to you, or just ignore this patch.

CJ

>
>> So trust kmalloc() algorithm instead of forcing a power of 2 allocation.
>> This can saves a few bytes of memory and still make use of all the
>> memory allocated.
>>
>> On the other side, it may require an additional realloc() in some cases.
>>
>
> Well, I feel like this isn't the only place I've seen the power of two
> buffer size realloc algorithm thing, but in thinking about it this seems
> fairly harmless and reasonable for printbufs. FWIW:
>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
>> ---
>> fs/bcachefs/printbuf.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/printbuf.c b/fs/bcachefs/printbuf.c
>> index 77bee9060bfe..34527407e950 100644
>> --- a/fs/bcachefs/printbuf.c
>> +++ b/fs/bcachefs/printbuf.c
>> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ int bch2_printbuf_make_room(struct printbuf *out, unsigned extra)
>> if (out->pos + extra < out->size)
>> return 0;
>>
>> - new_size = roundup_pow_of_two(out->size + extra);
>> + new_size = kmalloc_size_roundup(out->size + extra);
>>
>> /*
>> * Note: output buffer must be freeable with kfree(), it's not required
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
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