From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] slab: distinguish lock and trylock for sheaf_flush_main()
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:42:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260211-b4-sheaf-flush-v1-1-4e7f492f0055@suse.cz> (raw)
sheaf_flush_main() can be called from __pcs_replace_full_main() where
the trylock can in theory fail, and pcs_flush_all() where it's not
expected to and it would be actually a problem if it failed and left the
main sheaf not flushed.
To make this explicit, split the function into sheaf_flush_main() (using
local_lock()) and sheaf_try_flush_main() (using local_trylock()) where
both call __sheaf_flush_main_batch() to flush a single batch of objects.
This will allow lockdep to verify our assumptions.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
mm/slub.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 18c30872d196..12912b29f5bb 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2844,19 +2844,19 @@ static void __kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, void **p);
* object pointers are moved to a on-stack array under the lock. To bound the
* stack usage, limit each batch to PCS_BATCH_MAX.
*
- * returns true if at least partially flushed
+ * Must be called with s->cpu_sheaves->lock locked, returns with the lock
+ * unlocked.
+ *
+ * Returns how many objects are remaining to be flushed
*/
-static bool sheaf_flush_main(struct kmem_cache *s)
+static unsigned int __sheaf_flush_main_batch(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
struct slub_percpu_sheaves *pcs;
unsigned int batch, remaining;
void *objects[PCS_BATCH_MAX];
struct slab_sheaf *sheaf;
- bool ret = false;
-next_batch:
- if (!local_trylock(&s->cpu_sheaves->lock))
- return ret;
+ lockdep_assert_held(this_cpu_ptr(&s->cpu_sheaves->lock));
pcs = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_sheaves);
sheaf = pcs->main;
@@ -2874,10 +2874,37 @@ static bool sheaf_flush_main(struct kmem_cache *s)
stat_add(s, SHEAF_FLUSH, batch);
- ret = true;
+ return remaining;
+}
- if (remaining)
- goto next_batch;
+static void sheaf_flush_main(struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+ unsigned int remaining;
+
+ do {
+ local_lock(&s->cpu_sheaves->lock);
+
+ remaining = __sheaf_flush_main_batch(s);
+
+ } while (remaining);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Returns true if the main sheaf was at least partially flushed.
+ */
+static bool sheaf_try_flush_main(struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+ unsigned int remaining;
+ bool ret = false;
+
+ do {
+ if (!local_trylock(&s->cpu_sheaves->lock))
+ return ret;
+
+ ret = true;
+ remaining = __sheaf_flush_main_batch(s);
+
+ } while (remaining);
return ret;
}
@@ -5685,7 +5712,7 @@ __pcs_replace_full_main(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slub_percpu_sheaves *pcs,
if (put_fail)
stat(s, BARN_PUT_FAIL);
- if (!sheaf_flush_main(s))
+ if (!sheaf_try_flush_main(s))
return NULL;
if (!local_trylock(&s->cpu_sheaves->lock))
---
base-commit: 27125df9a5d3b4cfd03bce3a8ec405a368cc9aae
change-id: 20260211-b4-sheaf-flush-2eb99a9c8bfb
Best regards,
--
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-11 9:42 UTC|newest]
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2026-02-11 9:42 Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2026-02-12 3:11 ` Harry Yoo
2026-02-12 6:48 ` Hao Li
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