[RFC][PATCH 1/3] slub: Drop lock at the end of free_debug_processing

From: Laura Abbott
Date: Mon Jan 25 2016 - 20:16:08 EST



Currently, free_debug_processing has a comment "Keep node_lock to preserve
integrity until the object is actually freed". In actuallity,
the lock is dropped immediately in __slab_free. Rather than wait until
__slab_free and potentially throw off the unlikely marking, just drop
the lock in __slab_free. This also lets free_debug_processing take
its own copy of the spinlock flags rather than trying to share the ones
from __slab_free. Since there is no use for the node afterwards, change
the return type of free_debug_processing to return an int like
alloc_debug_processing.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 23 ++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 574a085..6ddba32 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1071,16 +1071,17 @@ bad:
}

/* Supports checking bulk free of a constructed freelist */
-static noinline struct kmem_cache_node *free_debug_processing(
+static noinline int free_debug_processing(
struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
void *head, void *tail, int bulk_cnt,
- unsigned long addr, unsigned long *flags)
+ unsigned long addr)
{
struct kmem_cache_node *n = get_node(s, page_to_nid(page));
void *object = head;
int cnt = 0;
+ unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);

- spin_lock_irqsave(&n->list_lock, *flags);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&n->list_lock, flags);
slab_lock(page);

if (!check_slab(s, page))
@@ -1133,17 +1134,14 @@ out:
bulk_cnt, cnt);

slab_unlock(page);
- /*
- * Keep node_lock to preserve integrity
- * until the object is actually freed
- */
- return n;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, flags);
+ return 1;

fail:
slab_unlock(page);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, *flags);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, flags);
slab_fix(s, "Object at 0x%p not freed", object);
- return NULL;
+ return 0;
}

static int __init setup_slub_debug(char *str)
@@ -1234,7 +1232,7 @@ static inline void setup_object_debug(struct kmem_cache *s,
static inline int alloc_debug_processing(struct kmem_cache *s,
struct page *page, void *object, unsigned long addr) { return 0; }

-static inline struct kmem_cache_node *free_debug_processing(
+static inline int free_debug_processing(
struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
void *head, void *tail, int bulk_cnt,
unsigned long addr, unsigned long *flags) { return NULL; }
@@ -2651,8 +2649,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
stat(s, FREE_SLOWPATH);

if (kmem_cache_debug(s) &&
- !(n = free_debug_processing(s, page, head, tail, cnt,
- addr, &flags)))
+ !free_debug_processing(s, page, head, tail, cnt, addr))
return;

do {
--
2.5.0