[PATCH v2 2/5] kfence: count unexpectedly skipped allocations

From: Marco Elver
Date: Tue Sep 21 2021 - 06:10:56 EST


Maintain a counter to count allocations that are skipped due to being
incompatible (oversized, incompatible gfp flags) or no capacity.

This is to compute the fraction of allocations that could not be
serviced by KFENCE, which we expect to be rare.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
* Do not count deadlock-avoidance skips.
---
mm/kfence/core.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
index 7a97db8bc8e7..249d75b7e5ee 100644
--- a/mm/kfence/core.c
+++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ enum kfence_counter_id {
KFENCE_COUNTER_FREES,
KFENCE_COUNTER_ZOMBIES,
KFENCE_COUNTER_BUGS,
+ KFENCE_COUNTER_SKIP_INCOMPAT,
+ KFENCE_COUNTER_SKIP_CAPACITY,
KFENCE_COUNTER_COUNT,
};
static atomic_long_t counters[KFENCE_COUNTER_COUNT];
@@ -121,6 +123,8 @@ static const char *const counter_names[] = {
[KFENCE_COUNTER_FREES] = "total frees",
[KFENCE_COUNTER_ZOMBIES] = "zombie allocations",
[KFENCE_COUNTER_BUGS] = "total bugs",
+ [KFENCE_COUNTER_SKIP_INCOMPAT] = "skipped allocations (incompatible)",
+ [KFENCE_COUNTER_SKIP_CAPACITY] = "skipped allocations (capacity)",
};
static_assert(ARRAY_SIZE(counter_names) == KFENCE_COUNTER_COUNT);

@@ -271,8 +275,10 @@ static void *kfence_guarded_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, size_t size, gfp_t g
list_del_init(&meta->list);
}
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kfence_freelist_lock, flags);
- if (!meta)
+ if (!meta) {
+ atomic_long_inc(&counters[KFENCE_COUNTER_SKIP_CAPACITY]);
return NULL;
+ }

if (unlikely(!raw_spin_trylock_irqsave(&meta->lock, flags))) {
/*
@@ -740,8 +746,10 @@ void *__kfence_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
* Perform size check before switching kfence_allocation_gate, so that
* we don't disable KFENCE without making an allocation.
*/
- if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
+ if (size > PAGE_SIZE) {
+ atomic_long_inc(&counters[KFENCE_COUNTER_SKIP_INCOMPAT]);
return NULL;
+ }

/*
* Skip allocations from non-default zones, including DMA. We cannot
@@ -749,8 +757,10 @@ void *__kfence_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
* properties (e.g. reside in DMAable memory).
*/
if ((flags & GFP_ZONEMASK) ||
- (s->flags & (SLAB_CACHE_DMA | SLAB_CACHE_DMA32)))
+ (s->flags & (SLAB_CACHE_DMA | SLAB_CACHE_DMA32))) {
+ atomic_long_inc(&counters[KFENCE_COUNTER_SKIP_INCOMPAT]);
return NULL;
+ }

/*
* allocation_gate only needs to become non-zero, so it doesn't make
--
2.33.0.464.g1972c5931b-goog