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From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz
Cc: andreyknvl@gmail.com, cl@gentwo.org, dvyukov@google.com,
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Subject: [PATCH V4 5/8] mm/slab: use stride to access slabobj_ext
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:08:40 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251222110843.980347-6-harry.yoo@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251222110843.980347-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com>

Use a configurable stride value when accessing slab object extension
metadata instead of assuming a fixed sizeof(struct slabobj_ext).

Store stride value in free bits of slab->counters field. This allows
for flexibility in cases where the extension is embedded within
slab objects.

Since these free bits exist only on 64-bit, any future optimizations
that need to change stride value cannot be enabled on 32-bit architectures.

Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
---
 mm/slab.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 mm/slub.c |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 5c75ef3d1823..38967ec663d1 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ struct freelist_counters {
 					 * that the slab was corrupted
 					 */
 					unsigned frozen:1;
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+					/*
+					 * Some optimizations use free bits in 'counters' field
+					 * to save memory. In case ->stride field is not available,
+					 * such optimizations are disabled.
+					 */
+					unsigned short stride;
+#endif
 				};
 			};
 		};
@@ -531,6 +539,26 @@ static inline unsigned long slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab)
 	return obj_exts & ~OBJEXTS_FLAGS_MASK;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+static inline void slab_set_stride(struct slab *slab, unsigned short stride)
+{
+	slab->stride = stride;
+}
+static inline unsigned short slab_get_stride(struct slab *slab)
+{
+	return slab->stride;
+}
+#else
+static inline void slab_set_stride(struct slab *slab, unsigned short stride)
+{
+	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(stride != sizeof(struct slabobj_ext));
+}
+static inline unsigned short slab_get_stride(struct slab *slab)
+{
+	return sizeof(struct slabobj_ext);
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * slab_obj_ext - get the pointer to the slab object extension metadata
  * associated with an object in a slab.
@@ -544,13 +572,10 @@ static inline struct slabobj_ext *slab_obj_ext(struct slab *slab,
 					       unsigned long obj_exts,
 					       unsigned int index)
 {
-	struct slabobj_ext *obj_ext;
-
 	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!slab_obj_exts(slab));
 	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(obj_exts != slab_obj_exts(slab));
 
-	obj_ext = (struct slabobj_ext *)obj_exts;
-	return &obj_ext[index];
+	return (struct slabobj_ext *)(obj_exts + slab_get_stride(slab) * index);
 }
 
 int alloc_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab, struct kmem_cache *s,
@@ -569,6 +594,10 @@ static inline struct slabobj_ext *slab_obj_ext(struct slab *slab,
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static inline void slab_set_stride(struct slab *slab, unsigned int stride) { }
+static inline unsigned int slab_get_stride(struct slab *slab) { return 0; }
+
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_SLAB_OBJ_EXT */
 
 static inline enum node_stat_item cache_vmstat_idx(struct kmem_cache *s)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 84bd4f23dc4a..8ac60a17d988 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2147,6 +2147,8 @@ int alloc_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab, struct kmem_cache *s,
 retry:
 	old_exts = READ_ONCE(slab->obj_exts);
 	handle_failed_objexts_alloc(old_exts, vec, objects);
+	slab_set_stride(slab, sizeof(struct slabobj_ext));
+
 	if (new_slab) {
 		/*
 		 * If the slab is brand new and nobody can yet access its
-- 
2.43.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-12-22 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-22 11:08 [PATCH V4 0/8] mm/slab: reduce slab accounting memory overhead by allocating slabobj_ext metadata within unsed slab space Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 1/8] mm/slab: use unsigned long for orig_size to ensure proper metadata align Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 2/8] mm/slab: allow specifying free pointer offset when using constructor Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 3/8] ext4: specify the free pointer offset for ext4_inode_cache Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 4/8] mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext access via new slab_obj_ext() helper Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 23:36   ` kernel test robot
2025-12-23  0:08   ` kernel test robot
2025-12-22 11:08 ` Harry Yoo [this message]
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 6/8] mm/memcontrol,alloc_tag: handle slabobj_ext access under KASAN poison Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 7/8] mm/slab: save memory by allocating slabobj_ext array from leftover Harry Yoo
2025-12-23  1:40   ` kernel test robot
2025-12-23 15:08   ` Hao Li
2025-12-23 15:31     ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-23 16:08       ` Hao Li
2025-12-23 16:25         ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-24  3:18           ` Hao Li
2025-12-24  5:53             ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-24  6:05               ` Hao Li
2025-12-24 12:51               ` [PATCH] slub: clarify object field layout comments Hao Li
2025-12-29  7:07                 ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-29 11:56                   ` Hao Li
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 8/8] mm/slab: place slabobj_ext metadata in unused space within s->size Harry Yoo
2025-12-24  5:33   ` Hao Li
2025-12-24  6:38     ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-24 12:43       ` Hao Li
2025-12-30  4:59         ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-30  8:54           ` Hao Li

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