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| H A D | slab.h | diff 130d4df57390a29521cb7cccd1b3144c184c111c Fri Aug 26 11:09:12 CEST 2022 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> mm/sl[au]b: rearrange struct slab fields to allow larger rcu_head
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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