Re: [PATCH 8/9] mm, slub: extend checks guarded by slub_debug static key

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Wed Jun 10 2020 - 18:10:26 EST


On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 06:31:34PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> There are few more places in SLUB that could benefit from reduced overhead of
> the static key introduced by a previous patch:
>
> - setup_object_debug() called on each object in newly allocated slab page
> - setup_page_debug() called on newly allocated slab page
> - __free_slab() called on freed slab page
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>

Thanks!

> ---
> mm/slub.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index c8e8b4ae2451..efb08f2e9c66 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@ static inline void dec_slabs_node(struct kmem_cache *s, int node, int objects)
> static void setup_object_debug(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
> void *object)
> {
> - if (!(s->flags & (SLAB_STORE_USER|SLAB_RED_ZONE|__OBJECT_POISON)))
> + if (!kmem_cache_debug_flags(s, SLAB_STORE_USER|SLAB_RED_ZONE|__OBJECT_POISON))
> return;

This part is nice! It might bring some perf improvements.

>
> init_object(s, object, SLUB_RED_INACTIVE);
> @@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ static void setup_object_debug(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
> static
> void setup_page_debug(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, void *addr)
> {
> - if (!(s->flags & SLAB_POISON))
> + if (!kmem_cache_debug_flags(s, SLAB_POISON))
> return;
>
> metadata_access_enable();
> @@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@ static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
> int order = compound_order(page);
> int pages = 1 << order;
>
> - if (s->flags & SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS) {
> + if (kmem_cache_debug_flags(s, SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS)) {
> void *p;
>
> slab_pad_check(s, page);
> --
> 2.26.2
>