Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: Achieve better kmalloc caches randomization in kvmalloc

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 1/22/25 17:02, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, GONG Ruiqi wrote:
> 
>>
>> +void *__kmalloc_node_inline(size_t size, kmem_buckets *b, gfp_t flags,
>> +				int node, unsigned long caller);
>> +
> 
> 
> Huh? Is this inline? Where is the body of the function?
> 
>> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
>> index c2151c9fee22..ec75070345c6 100644
>> --- a/mm/slub.c
>> +++ b/mm/slub.c
>> @@ -4319,6 +4319,13 @@ void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof(DECL_BUCKET_PARAMS(size, b), gfp_t flag
>>  }
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof);
>>
>> +__always_inline void *__kmalloc_node_inline(size_t size, kmem_buckets *b,
>> +					    gfp_t flags, int node,
>> +					    unsigned long caller)
>> +{
>> +	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, b, flags, node, caller);
>> +}
>> +
> 
> inline functions need to be defined in the header file AFAICT.

Yeah, this could possibly inline only with LTO (dunno if it does). But the
real difference is passing __kvmalloc_node_noprof()'s _RET_IP_ as caller.

Maybe instead of this new wrapper we could just move
__kvmalloc_node_noprof() to slub.c and access __do_kmalloc_node() directly.
For consistency also kvfree() and whatever necessary dependencies. The
placement in util.c is kinda weird anyway and IIRC we already moved
krealloc() due to needing deeper involvement with slab internals. The
vmalloc part of kvmalloc/kvfree is kinda a self-contained fallback that can
be just called from slub.c as well as from util.c.