From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>,
Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 12/20] slab: remove defer_deactivate_slab()
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:17:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260112-sheaves-for-all-v2-12-98225cfb50cf@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260112-sheaves-for-all-v2-0-98225cfb50cf@suse.cz>
There are no more cpu slabs so we don't need their deferred
deactivation. The function is now only used from places where we
allocate a new slab but then can't spin on node list_lock to put it on
the partial list. Instead of the deferred action we can free it directly
via __free_slab(), we just need to tell it to use _nolock() freeing of
the underlying pages and take care of the accounting.
Since free_frozen_pages_nolock() variant does not yet exist for code
outside of the page allocator, create it as a trivial wrapper for
__free_frozen_pages(..., FPI_TRYLOCK).
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
mm/internal.h | 1 +
mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +++++
mm/slab.h | 8 +-------
mm/slub.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index e430da900430..1f44ccb4badf 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -846,6 +846,7 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_frozen_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int ord
struct page *alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof(gfp_t gfp_flags, int nid, unsigned int order);
#define alloc_frozen_pages_nolock(...) \
alloc_hooks(alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
+void free_frozen_pages_nolock(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
extern void zone_pcp_reset(struct zone *zone);
extern void zone_pcp_disable(struct zone *zone);
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 822e05f1a964..8a288ecfdd93 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2981,6 +2981,11 @@ void free_frozen_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
__free_frozen_pages(page, order, FPI_NONE);
}
+void free_frozen_pages_nolock(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+{
+ __free_frozen_pages(page, order, FPI_TRYLOCK);
+}
+
/*
* Free a batch of folios
*/
diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index e77260720994..4efec41b6445 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -71,13 +71,7 @@ struct slab {
struct kmem_cache *slab_cache;
union {
struct {
- union {
- struct list_head slab_list;
- struct { /* For deferred deactivate_slab() */
- struct llist_node llnode;
- void *flush_freelist;
- };
- };
+ struct list_head slab_list;
/* Double-word boundary */
struct freelist_counters;
};
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 522a7e671a26..0effeb3b9552 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3248,7 +3248,7 @@ static struct slab *new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
flags & (GFP_RECLAIM_MASK | GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK), node);
}
-static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab)
+static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, bool allow_spin)
{
struct page *page = slab_page(slab);
int order = compound_order(page);
@@ -3262,11 +3262,20 @@ static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab)
free_frozen_pages(page, order);
}
+static void free_new_slab_nolock(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab)
+{
+ /*
+ * Since it was just allocated, we can skip the actions in
+ * discard_slab() and free_slab().
+ */
+ __free_slab(s, slab, false);
+}
+
static void rcu_free_slab(struct rcu_head *h)
{
struct slab *slab = container_of(h, struct slab, rcu_head);
- __free_slab(slab->slab_cache, slab);
+ __free_slab(slab->slab_cache, slab, true);
}
static void free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab)
@@ -3282,7 +3291,7 @@ static void free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab)
if (unlikely(s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU))
call_rcu(&slab->rcu_head, rcu_free_slab);
else
- __free_slab(s, slab);
+ __free_slab(s, slab, true);
}
static void discard_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab)
@@ -3375,8 +3384,6 @@ static void *alloc_single_from_partial(struct kmem_cache *s,
return object;
}
-static void defer_deactivate_slab(struct slab *slab, void *flush_freelist);
-
/*
* Called only for kmem_cache_debug() caches to allocate from a freshly
* allocated slab. Allocate a single object instead of whole freelist
@@ -3392,8 +3399,8 @@ static void *alloc_single_from_new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
void *object;
if (!allow_spin && !spin_trylock_irqsave(&n->list_lock, flags)) {
- /* Unlucky, discard newly allocated slab */
- defer_deactivate_slab(slab, NULL);
+ /* Unlucky, discard newly allocated slab. */
+ free_new_slab_nolock(s, slab);
return NULL;
}
@@ -4262,7 +4269,7 @@ static unsigned int alloc_from_new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&n->list_lock, flags)) {
/* Unlucky, discard newly allocated slab */
- defer_deactivate_slab(slab, NULL);
+ free_new_slab_nolock(s, slab);
return 0;
}
}
@@ -6031,7 +6038,6 @@ static void free_to_pcs_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, void **p)
struct defer_free {
struct llist_head objects;
- struct llist_head slabs;
struct irq_work work;
};
@@ -6039,7 +6045,6 @@ static void free_deferred_objects(struct irq_work *work);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct defer_free, defer_free_objects) = {
.objects = LLIST_HEAD_INIT(objects),
- .slabs = LLIST_HEAD_INIT(slabs),
.work = IRQ_WORK_INIT(free_deferred_objects),
};
@@ -6052,10 +6057,9 @@ static void free_deferred_objects(struct irq_work *work)
{
struct defer_free *df = container_of(work, struct defer_free, work);
struct llist_head *objs = &df->objects;
- struct llist_head *slabs = &df->slabs;
struct llist_node *llnode, *pos, *t;
- if (llist_empty(objs) && llist_empty(slabs))
+ if (llist_empty(objs))
return;
llnode = llist_del_all(objs);
@@ -6079,16 +6083,6 @@ static void free_deferred_objects(struct irq_work *work)
__slab_free(s, slab, x, x, 1, _THIS_IP_);
}
-
- llnode = llist_del_all(slabs);
- llist_for_each_safe(pos, t, llnode) {
- struct slab *slab = container_of(pos, struct slab, llnode);
-
- if (slab->frozen)
- deactivate_slab(slab->slab_cache, slab, slab->flush_freelist);
- else
- free_slab(slab->slab_cache, slab);
- }
}
static void defer_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *head)
@@ -6102,19 +6096,6 @@ static void defer_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *head)
irq_work_queue(&df->work);
}
-static void defer_deactivate_slab(struct slab *slab, void *flush_freelist)
-{
- struct defer_free *df;
-
- slab->flush_freelist = flush_freelist;
-
- guard(preempt)();
-
- df = this_cpu_ptr(&defer_free_objects);
- if (llist_add(&slab->llnode, &df->slabs))
- irq_work_queue(&df->work);
-}
-
void defer_free_barrier(void)
{
int cpu;
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-12 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-12 15:16 [PATCH RFC v2 00/20] slab: replace cpu (partial) slabs with sheaves Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 01/20] mm/slab: add rcu_barrier() to kvfree_rcu_barrier_on_cache() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 02/20] mm/slab: move and refactor __kmem_cache_alias() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 03/20] mm/slab: make caches with sheaves mergeable Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 04/20] slab: add sheaves to most caches Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC v2 05/20] slab: introduce percpu sheaves bootstrap Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 06/20] slab: make percpu sheaves compatible with kmalloc_nolock()/kfree_nolock() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 07/20] slab: handle kmalloc sheaves bootstrap Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 08/20] slab: add optimized sheaf refill from partial list Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 09/20] slab: remove cpu (partial) slabs usage from allocation paths Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 10/20] slab: remove SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 11/20] slab: remove the do_slab_free() fastpath Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 13/20] slab: simplify kmalloc_nolock() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 14/20] slab: remove struct kmem_cache_cpu Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 15/20] slab: remove unused PREEMPT_RT specific macros Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 16/20] slab: refill sheaves from all nodes Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 17/20] slab: update overview comments Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 18/20] slab: remove frozen slab checks from __slab_free() Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 19/20] mm/slub: remove DEACTIVATE_TO_* stat items Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:17 ` [PATCH RFC v2 20/20] mm/slub: cleanup and repurpose some " Vlastimil Babka
2026-01-12 15:20 ` [PATCH v2 00/20] slab: replace cpu (partial) slabs with sheaves Vlastimil Babka
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