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From:   Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:05:32 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: kfence: simplify kfence pool initialization
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc:     glider@google.com, dvyukov@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        jannh@google.com, sjpark@amazon.de, muchun.song@linux.dev,
        kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 13:55, Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 11:58, Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> wrote:
> >
> > There are three similar loops to initialize kfence pool, we could merge
> > all of them into one loop to simplify the code and make code more
> > efficient.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
>
> > ---
> >  mm/kfence/core.c | 47 ++++++-----------------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
> > index 7d01a2c76e80..de62a84d4830 100644
> > --- a/mm/kfence/core.c
> > +++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
> > @@ -539,35 +539,10 @@ static void rcu_guarded_free(struct rcu_head *h)
> >  static unsigned long kfence_init_pool(void)
> >  {
> >         unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)__kfence_pool;
> > -       struct page *pages;
> >         int i;
> >
> >         if (!arch_kfence_init_pool())
> >                 return addr;
> > -
> > -       pages = virt_to_page(__kfence_pool);
> > -
> > -       /*
> > -        * Set up object pages: they must have PG_slab set, to avoid freeing
> > -        * these as real pages.
> > -        *
> > -        * We also want to avoid inserting kfence_free() in the kfree()
> > -        * fast-path in SLUB, and therefore need to ensure kfree() correctly
> > -        * enters __slab_free() slow-path.
> > -        */

Actually: can you retain this comment somewhere?

> > -       for (i = 0; i < KFENCE_POOL_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE; i++) {
> > -               struct slab *slab = page_slab(nth_page(pages, i));
> > -
> > -               if (!i || (i % 2))
> > -                       continue;
> > -
> > -               __folio_set_slab(slab_folio(slab));
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> > -               slab->memcg_data = (unsigned long)&kfence_metadata[i / 2 - 1].objcg |
> > -                                  MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS;
> > -#endif
> > -       }
> > -
> >         /*
> >          * Protect the first 2 pages. The first page is mostly unnecessary, and
> >          * merely serves as an extended guard page. However, adding one
> > @@ -581,8 +556,9 @@ static unsigned long kfence_init_pool(void)
> >                 addr += PAGE_SIZE;
> >         }
> >
> > -       for (i = 0; i < CONFIG_KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS; i++) {
> > +       for (i = 0; i < CONFIG_KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS; i++, addr += 2 * PAGE_SIZE) {
> >                 struct kfence_metadata *meta = &kfence_metadata[i];
> > +               struct slab *slab = page_slab(virt_to_page(addr));
> >
> >                 /* Initialize metadata. */
> >                 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&meta->list);
> > @@ -593,26 +569,15 @@ static unsigned long kfence_init_pool(void)
> >
> >                 /* Protect the right redzone. */
> >                 if (unlikely(!kfence_protect(addr + PAGE_SIZE)))
> > -                       goto reset_slab;
> > -
> > -               addr += 2 * PAGE_SIZE;
> > -       }
> > -
> > -       return 0;
> > -
> > -reset_slab:
> > -       for (i = 0; i < KFENCE_POOL_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE; i++) {
> > -               struct slab *slab = page_slab(nth_page(pages, i));
> > +                       return addr;
> >
> > -               if (!i || (i % 2))
> > -                       continue;
> > +               __folio_set_slab(slab_folio(slab));
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> > -               slab->memcg_data = 0;
> > +               slab->memcg_data = (unsigned long)&meta->objcg | MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS;
> >  #endif
> > -               __folio_clear_slab(slab_folio(slab));
> >         }
> >
> > -       return addr;
> > +       return 0;
> >  }
> >
> >  static bool __init kfence_init_pool_early(void)
> > --
> > 2.11.0
> >