From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH V2 2/2] mm/slab: drop the OBJEXTS_NOSPIN_ALLOC flag from enum objext_flags
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:46:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260210044642.139482-3-harry.yoo@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260210044642.139482-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com>
OBJEXTS_NOSPIN_ALLOC was used to remember whether a slabobj_ext vector
was allocated via kmalloc_nolock(), so that free_slab_obj_exts() could
call kfree_nolock() instead of kfree().
Now that kfree() supports freeing kmalloc_nolock() objects, this flag is
no longer needed. Instead, pass the allow_spin parameter down to
free_slab_obj_exts() to determine whether kfree_nolock() or kfree()
should be called in the free path, and free one bit in
enum objext_flags.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 3 +--
mm/slub.c | 18 ++++++++----------
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 0651865a4564..bb789ec4a2a2 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -359,8 +359,7 @@ enum objext_flags {
* MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS.
*/
OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL = __OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL,
- /* slabobj_ext vector allocated with kmalloc_nolock() */
- OBJEXTS_NOSPIN_ALLOC = __FIRST_OBJEXT_FLAG,
+ __OBJEXTS_FLAG_UNUSED = __FIRST_OBJEXT_FLAG,
/* the next bit after the last actual flag */
__NR_OBJEXTS_FLAGS = (__FIRST_OBJEXT_FLAG << 1),
};
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 63b03fd62ca7..a73a80b33ff9 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2189,8 +2189,6 @@ int alloc_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab, struct kmem_cache *s,
virt_to_slab(vec)->slab_cache == s);
new_exts = (unsigned long)vec;
- if (unlikely(!allow_spin))
- new_exts |= OBJEXTS_NOSPIN_ALLOC;
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
new_exts |= MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS;
#endif
@@ -2228,7 +2226,7 @@ int alloc_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab, struct kmem_cache *s,
return 0;
}
-static inline void free_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab)
+static inline void free_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab, bool allow_spin)
{
struct slabobj_ext *obj_exts;
@@ -2256,10 +2254,10 @@ static inline void free_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab)
* the extension for obj_exts is expected to be NULL.
*/
mark_objexts_empty(obj_exts);
- if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(slab->obj_exts) & OBJEXTS_NOSPIN_ALLOC))
- kfree_nolock(obj_exts);
- else
+ if (allow_spin)
kfree(obj_exts);
+ else
+ kfree_nolock(obj_exts);
slab->obj_exts = 0;
}
@@ -2323,7 +2321,7 @@ static int alloc_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab, struct kmem_cache *s,
return 0;
}
-static inline void free_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab)
+static inline void free_slab_obj_exts(struct slab *slab, bool allow_spin)
{
}
@@ -3387,14 +3385,14 @@ static __always_inline void account_slab(struct slab *slab, int order,
}
static __always_inline void unaccount_slab(struct slab *slab, int order,
- struct kmem_cache *s)
+ struct kmem_cache *s, bool allow_spin)
{
/*
* The slab object extensions should now be freed regardless of
* whether mem_alloc_profiling_enabled() or not because profiling
* might have been disabled after slab->obj_exts got allocated.
*/
- free_slab_obj_exts(slab);
+ free_slab_obj_exts(slab, allow_spin);
mod_node_page_state(slab_pgdat(slab), cache_vmstat_idx(s),
-(PAGE_SIZE << order));
@@ -3498,7 +3496,7 @@ static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, bool allow_spin
page->mapping = NULL;
__ClearPageSlab(page);
mm_account_reclaimed_pages(pages);
- unaccount_slab(slab, order, s);
+ unaccount_slab(slab, order, s, allow_spin);
if (allow_spin)
free_frozen_pages(page, order);
else
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-10 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-10 4:46 [PATCH V2 0/2] mm/slab: support kmalloc_nolock() -> kfree[_rcu]() Harry Yoo
2026-02-10 4:46 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] mm/slab: allow freeing kmalloc_nolock()'d objects using kfree[_rcu]() Harry Yoo
2026-02-10 4:46 ` Harry Yoo [this message]
2026-02-10 8:57 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] mm/slab: drop the OBJEXTS_NOSPIN_ALLOC flag from enum objext_flags Hao Li
2026-02-10 10:32 ` Harry Yoo
2026-02-10 14:08 ` [PATCH V2 0/2] mm/slab: support kmalloc_nolock() -> kfree[_rcu]() Vlastimil Babka
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