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Merge tag 'slab-for-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab

Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
 "This time it's mostly random cleanups and fixes, with two performance
  fixes that might have significant impact, but limited to systems
  experiencing particular bad corner case scenarios rather than general
  performance improvements.

  The memcg hook changes are going through the mm tree due to
  dependencies.

   - Prevent stalls when reading /proc/slabinfo (Jianfeng Wang)

     This fixes the long-standing problem that can happen with workloads
     that have alloc/free patterns resulting in many partially used
     slabs (in e.g. dentry cache). Reading /proc/slabinfo will traverse
     the long partial slab list under spinlock with disabled irqs and
     thus can stall other processes or even trigger the lockup
     detection. The traversal is only done to count free objects so that
     <active_objs> column can be reported along with <num_objs>.

     To avoid affecting fast paths with another shared counter
     (attempted in the past) or complex partial list traversal schemes
     that allow rescheduling, the chosen solution resorts to
     approximation - when the partial list is over 10000 slabs long, we
     will only traverse first 5000 slabs from head and tail each and use
     the average of those to estimate the whole list. Both head and tail
     are used as the slabs near head to tend to have more free objects
     than the slabs towards the tail.

     It is expected the approximation should not break existing
     /proc/slabinfo consumers. The <num_objs> field is still accurate
     and reflects the overall kmem_cache footprint. The <active_objs>
     was already imprecise due to cpu and percpu-partial slabs, so can't
     be relied upon to determine exact cache usage. The difference
     between <active_objs> and <num_objs> is mainly useful to determine
     the slab fragmentation, and that will be possible even with the
     approximation in place.

   - Prevent allocating many slabs when a NUMA node is full (Chen Jun)

     Currently, on NUMA systems with a node under significantly bigger
     pressure than other nodes, the fallback strategy may result in each
     kmalloc_node() that can't be safisfied from the preferred node, to
     allocate a new slab on a fallback node, and not reuse the slabs
     already on that node's partial list.

     This is now fixed and partial lists of fallback nodes are checked
     even for kmalloc_node() allocations. It's still preferred to
     allocate a new slab on the requested node before a fallback, but
     only with a GFP_NOWAIT attempt, which will fail quickly when the
     node is under a significant memory pressure.

   - More SLAB removal related cleanups (Xiu Jianfeng, Hyunmin Lee)

   - Fix slub_kunit self-test with hardened freelists (Guenter Roeck)

   - Mark racy accesses for KCSAN (linke li)

   - Misc cleanups (Xiongwei Song, Haifeng Xu, Sangyun Kim)"

* tag 'slab-for-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
  mm/slub: remove the check for NULL kmalloc_caches
  mm/slub: create kmalloc 96 and 192 caches regardless cache size order
  mm/slub: mark racy access on slab->freelist
  slub: use count_partial_free_approx() in slab_out_of_memory()
  slub: introduce count_partial_free_approx()
  slub: Set __GFP_COMP in kmem_cache by default
  mm/slub: remove duplicate initialization for early_kmem_cache_node_alloc()
  mm/slub: correct comment in do_slab_free()
  mm/slub, kunit: Use inverted data to corrupt kmem cache
  mm/slub: simplify get_partial_node()
  mm/slub: add slub_get_cpu_partial() helper
  mm/slub: remove the check of !kmem_cache_has_cpu_partial()
  mm/slub: Reduce memory consumption in extreme scenarios
  mm/slub: mark racy accesses on slab->slabs
  mm/slub: remove dummy slabinfo functions
2024-05-13 10:28:34 -07:00
arch sparc32,parisc,csky: Provide one-byte and two-byte cmpxchg() support 2024-05-13 10:05:39 -07:00
block block-6.9-20240510 2024-05-10 10:24:16 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression that broke iwd as well as a divide by 2024-03-25 10:48:23 -07:00
Documentation kcsan: Introduce __data_racy type qualifier 2024-05-13 10:13:39 -07:00
drivers alpha: cleanups and build fixes 2024-05-13 09:14:57 -07:00
fs 18 hotfixes, 7 of which are cc:stable. 2024-05-10 14:16:03 -07:00
include kcsan: Introduce __data_racy type qualifier 2024-05-13 10:13:39 -07:00
init Rust fixes for v6.9 2024-04-27 12:11:55 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/net: restore msg_control on sendzc retry 2024-04-08 21:48:41 -06:00
ipc sysctl changes for v6.9-rc1 2024-03-18 14:59:13 -07:00
kernel kcsan: Introduce __data_racy type qualifier 2024-05-13 10:13:39 -07:00
lib slab updates for 6.10 2024-05-13 10:28:34 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm slab updates for 6.10 2024-05-13 10:28:34 -07:00
net net/smc: fix neighbour and rtable leak in smc_ib_find_route() 2024-05-09 10:03:43 +02:00
rust rust: remove params from module macro example 2024-04-25 17:34:33 +02:00
samples Tracing updates for 6.9: 2024-03-18 15:11:44 -07:00
scripts - Store AP Query Configuration Information in a static buffer 2024-05-13 08:33:52 -07:00
security security: Place security_path_post_mknod() where the original IMA call was 2024-04-03 10:21:32 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix build error without CONFIG_PM 2024-05-02 08:25:06 +02:00
tools RCU pull request for v6.10 2024-05-13 09:49:06 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt KVM: Drop unused @may_block param from gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start() 2024-04-11 12:58:53 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap RCU pull request for v6.10 2024-05-13 09:49:06 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Drop Gustavo Pimentel as PCI DWC Maintainer 2024-03-27 13:41:02 -05:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS RCU pull request for v6.10 2024-05-13 09:49:06 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.9 2024-05-12 14:12:29 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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