Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] kfence: count unexpectedly skipped allocations

[Alexander Potapenko]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:48 PM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@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
>


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Alexander Potapenko
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