Hi Dave,
On 2023/7/26 15:26, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 05:43:10PM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
>> Currently, the shrinker instances can be divided into the following three
>> types:
>>
>> a) global shrinker instance statically defined in the kernel, such as
>> workingset_shadow_shrinker.
>>
>> b) global shrinker instance statically defined in the kernel modules, such
>> as mmu_shrinker in x86.
>>
>> c) shrinker instance embedded in other structures.
>>
>> For case a, the memory of shrinker instance is never freed. For case b,
>> the memory of shrinker instance will be freed after synchronize_rcu() when
>> the module is unloaded. For case c, the memory of shrinker instance will
>> be freed along with the structure it is embedded in.
>>
>> In preparation for implementing lockless slab shrink, we need to
>> dynamically allocate those shrinker instances in case c, then the memory
>> can be dynamically freed alone by calling kfree_rcu().
>>
>> So this commit adds the following new APIs for dynamically allocating
>> shrinker, and add a private_data field to struct shrinker to record and
>> get the original embedded structure.
>>
>> 1. shrinker_alloc()
>>
>> Used to allocate shrinker instance itself and related memory, it will
>> return a pointer to the shrinker instance on success and NULL on failure.
>>
>> 2. shrinker_free_non_registered()
>>
>> Used to destroy the non-registered shrinker instance.
>
> This is a bit nasty
>
>>
>> 3. shrinker_register()
>>
>> Used to register the shrinker instance, which is same as the current
>> register_shrinker_prepared().
>>
>> 4. shrinker_unregister()
>
> rename this "shrinker_free()" and key the two different freeing
> cases on the SHRINKER_REGISTERED bit rather than mostly duplicating
> the two.
OK, will do in the next version.
>
> void shrinker_free(struct shrinker *shrinker)
> {
> struct dentry *debugfs_entry = NULL;
> int debugfs_id;
>
> if (!shrinker)
> return;
>
> down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
> if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_REGISTERED) {
> list_del(&shrinker->list);
> debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_detach(shrinker, &debugfs_id);
> } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG)) {
> kfree_const(shrinker->name);
> }
>
> if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE)
> unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
> up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
>
> if (debugfs_entry)
> shrinker_debugfs_remove(debugfs_entry, debugfs_id);
>
> kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
> kfree(shrinker);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shrinker_free);
Ah, I will change all new APIs to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
Thanks,
Qi
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