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Joel reports [1] that increasing the rcu_head size for debugging purposes used to work before struct slab was split from struct page, but now runs into the various SLAB_MATCH() sanity checks of the layout. This is because the rcu_head in struct page is in union with large sub-structures and has space to grow without exceeding their size, while in struct slab (for SLAB and SLUB) it's in union only with a list_head. On closer inspection (and after the previous patch) we can put all fields except slab_cache to a union with rcu_head, as slab_cache is sufficient for the rcu freeing callbacks to work and the rest can be overwritten by rcu_head without causing issues. This is only somewhat complicated by the need to keep SLUB's freelist+counters aligned for cmpxchg_double. As a result the fields need to be reordered so that slab_cache is first (after page flags) and the union with rcu_head follows. For consistency, do that for SLAB as well, although not necessary there. As a result, the rcu_head field in struct page and struct slab is no longer at the same offset, but that doesn't matter as there is no casting that would rely on that in the slab freeing callbacks, so we can just drop the respective SLAB_MATCH() check. Also we need to update the SLAB_MATCH() for compound_head to reflect the new ordering. While at it, also add a static_assert to check the alignment needed for cmpxchg_double so mistakes are found sooner than a runtime GPF. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/85afd876-d8bb-0804-b2c5-48ed3055e702@joelfernandes.org/ Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.