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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



  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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