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[RFC,1/5] mm, slub: extend slub_debug syntax for multiple blocks

Message ID 20200602141519.7099-2-vbabka@suse.cz (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series replace runtime slub_debug toggling with more capable boot parameter | expand

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Vlastimil Babka June 2, 2020, 2:15 p.m. UTC
The slub_debug kernel boot parameter can either apply a single set of options
to all caches or a list of caches. There is a use case where debugging is
applied for all caches and then disabled at runtime for specific caches, for
performance and memory consumption reasons [1]. As runtime changes are
dangerous, extend the boot parameter syntax so that multiple blocks of either
global or slab-specific options can be specified, with blocks delimited by ';'.
This will also support the use case of [1] without runtime changes.

For details see the updated Documentation/vm/slub.rst

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1383cd32-1ddc-4dac-b5f8-9c42282fa81c@codeaurora.org

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
 .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |   2 +-
 Documentation/vm/slub.rst                     |  17 ++
 mm/slub.c                                     | 177 +++++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

Comments

Kees Cook June 5, 2020, 9:06 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:15:15PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> The slub_debug kernel boot parameter can either apply a single set of options
> to all caches or a list of caches. There is a use case where debugging is
> applied for all caches and then disabled at runtime for specific caches, for
> performance and memory consumption reasons [1]. As runtime changes are
> dangerous, extend the boot parameter syntax so that multiple blocks of either
> global or slab-specific options can be specified, with blocks delimited by ';'.
> This will also support the use case of [1] without runtime changes.
> 
> For details see the updated Documentation/vm/slub.rst
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1383cd32-1ddc-4dac-b5f8-9c42282fa81c@codeaurora.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> ---
>  .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |   2 +-
>  Documentation/vm/slub.rst                     |  17 ++
>  mm/slub.c                                     | 177 +++++++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 6253849afac2..6ea00c8dd635 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -4613,7 +4613,7 @@
>  			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
>  			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
>  
> -	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
> +	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
>  			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
>  			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
>  			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
> diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
> index 4eee598555c9..f1154f707e06 100644
> --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
> @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ slub_debug=<Debug-Options>,<slab name1>,<slab name2>,...
>  	Enable options only for select slabs (no spaces
>  	after a comma)
>  
> +Multiple blocks of options for all slabs or selected slabs can be given, with
> +blocks of options delimited by ';'. The last of "all slabs" blocks is applied
> +to all slabs except those that match one of the "select slabs" block. Options
> +of the first "select slabs" blocks that matches the slab's name are applied.
> +
>  Possible debug options are::
>  
>  	F		Sanity checks on (enables SLAB_DEBUG_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS
> @@ -83,6 +88,18 @@ in low memory situations or if there's high fragmentation of memory.  To
>  
>  	slub_debug=O
>  
> +You can apply different options to different list of slab names, using blocks
> +of options. This will enable red zoning for dentry and user tracking for
> +kmalloc. All other slabs will not get any debugging enabled::
> +
> +	slub_debug=Z,dentry;U,kmalloc-*
> +
> +You can also enable options (e.g. sanity checks and poisoning) for all caches
> +except some that are deemed too performance critical and don't need to be
> +debugged::

Just for more clarity, how about:

 ... debugged by starting the list with "-" (to mean "all except the
following")::

> +
> +	slub_debug=FZ;-,zs_handle,zspage
> +
>  In case you forgot to enable debugging on the kernel command line: It is
>  possible to enable debugging manually when the kernel is up. Look at the
>  contents of::

Everything else looks great; very nice! :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Vlastimil Babka June 8, 2020, 4:58 p.m. UTC | #2
On 6/5/20 11:06 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> @@ -83,6 +88,18 @@ in low memory situations or if there's high fragmentation of memory.  To
>>  
>>  	slub_debug=O
>>  
>> +You can apply different options to different list of slab names, using blocks
>> +of options. This will enable red zoning for dentry and user tracking for
>> +kmalloc. All other slabs will not get any debugging enabled::
>> +
>> +	slub_debug=Z,dentry;U,kmalloc-*
>> +
>> +You can also enable options (e.g. sanity checks and poisoning) for all caches
>> +except some that are deemed too performance critical and don't need to be
>> +debugged::
> 
> Just for more clarity, how about:
> 
>  ... debugged by starting the list with "-" (to mean "all except the
> following")::

Hmm, "-" is not exactly "all except the following", but "no debugging", as
explained in the list of debug options earlier in the file.

So I'm updating it to this:

You can also enable options (e.g. sanity checks and poisoning) for all caches
except some that are deemed too performance critical and don't need to be
debugged by specifying global debug options followed by a list of slab names
with "-" as options::

        slub_debug=FZ;-,zs_handle,zspage


>> +
>> +	slub_debug=FZ;-,zs_handle,zspage
>> +
>>  In case you forgot to enable debugging on the kernel command line: It is
>>  possible to enable debugging manually when the kernel is up. Look at the
>>  contents of::
> 
> Everything else looks great; very nice! :)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
 
Thanks!
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6253849afac2..6ea00c8dd635 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4613,7 +4613,7 @@ 
 			fragmentation.  Defaults to 1 for systems with
 			more than 32MB of RAM, 0 otherwise.
 
-	slub_debug[=options[,slabs]]	[MM, SLUB]
+	slub_debug[=options[,slabs][;[options[,slabs]]...]	[MM, SLUB]
 			Enabling slub_debug allows one to determine the
 			culprit if slab objects become corrupted. Enabling
 			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
index 4eee598555c9..f1154f707e06 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@  slub_debug=<Debug-Options>,<slab name1>,<slab name2>,...
 	Enable options only for select slabs (no spaces
 	after a comma)
 
+Multiple blocks of options for all slabs or selected slabs can be given, with
+blocks of options delimited by ';'. The last of "all slabs" blocks is applied
+to all slabs except those that match one of the "select slabs" block. Options
+of the first "select slabs" blocks that matches the slab's name are applied.
+
 Possible debug options are::
 
 	F		Sanity checks on (enables SLAB_DEBUG_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS
@@ -83,6 +88,18 @@  in low memory situations or if there's high fragmentation of memory.  To
 
 	slub_debug=O
 
+You can apply different options to different list of slab names, using blocks
+of options. This will enable red zoning for dentry and user tracking for
+kmalloc. All other slabs will not get any debugging enabled::
+
+	slub_debug=Z,dentry;U,kmalloc-*
+
+You can also enable options (e.g. sanity checks and poisoning) for all caches
+except some that are deemed too performance critical and don't need to be
+debugged::
+
+	slub_debug=FZ;-,zs_handle,zspage
+
 In case you forgot to enable debugging on the kernel command line: It is
 possible to enable debugging manually when the kernel is up. Look at the
 contents of::
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 03e063cd979f..47430aad9a65 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@  static slab_flags_t slub_debug = DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS;
 static slab_flags_t slub_debug;
 #endif
 
-static char *slub_debug_slabs;
+static char *slub_debug_string;
 static int disable_higher_order_debug;
 
 /*
@@ -1262,68 +1262,132 @@  static noinline int free_debug_processing(
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int __init setup_slub_debug(char *str)
+/*
+ * Parse a block of slub_debug options. Blocks are delimited by ';'
+ *
+ * @str:    start of block
+ * @flags:  returns parsed flags, or DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS if none specified
+ * @slabs:  return start of list of slabs, or NULL when there's no list
+ * @init:   assume this is initial parsing and not per-kmem-create parsing
+ *
+ * returns the start of next block if there's any, or NULL
+ */
+char *
+parse_slub_debug_flags(char *str, slab_flags_t *flags, char **slabs, bool init)
 {
-	slub_debug = DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS;
-	if (*str++ != '=' || !*str)
-		/*
-		 * No options specified. Switch on full debugging.
-		 */
-		goto out;
+	bool higher_order_disable = false;
 
-	if (*str == ',')
+	/* Skip any completely empty blocks */
+	while (*str && *str == ';')
+		str++;
+
+	if (*str == ',') {
 		/*
 		 * No options but restriction on slabs. This means full
 		 * debugging for slabs matching a pattern.
 		 */
+		*flags = DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS;
 		goto check_slabs;
+	}
+	*flags = 0;
 
-	slub_debug = 0;
-	if (*str == '-')
-		/*
-		 * Switch off all debugging measures.
-		 */
-		goto out;
-
-	/*
-	 * Determine which debug features should be switched on
-	 */
-	for (; *str && *str != ','; str++) {
+	/* Determine which debug features should be switched on */
+	for (; *str && *str != ',' && *str != ';'; str++) {
 		switch (tolower(*str)) {
+		case '-':
+			*flags = 0;
+			break;
 		case 'f':
-			slub_debug |= SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS;
+			*flags |= SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS;
 			break;
 		case 'z':
-			slub_debug |= SLAB_RED_ZONE;
+			*flags |= SLAB_RED_ZONE;
 			break;
 		case 'p':
-			slub_debug |= SLAB_POISON;
+			*flags |= SLAB_POISON;
 			break;
 		case 'u':
-			slub_debug |= SLAB_STORE_USER;
+			*flags |= SLAB_STORE_USER;
 			break;
 		case 't':
-			slub_debug |= SLAB_TRACE;
+			*flags |= SLAB_TRACE;
 			break;
 		case 'a':
-			slub_debug |= SLAB_FAILSLAB;
+			*flags |= SLAB_FAILSLAB;
 			break;
 		case 'o':
 			/*
 			 * Avoid enabling debugging on caches if its minimum
 			 * order would increase as a result.
 			 */
-			disable_higher_order_debug = 1;
+			higher_order_disable = true;
 			break;
 		default:
-			pr_err("slub_debug option '%c' unknown. skipped\n",
-			       *str);
+			if (init)
+				pr_err("slub_debug option '%c' unknown. skipped\n", *str);
 		}
 	}
-
 check_slabs:
 	if (*str == ',')
-		slub_debug_slabs = str + 1;
+		*slabs = ++str;
+	else
+		*slabs = NULL;
+
+	/* Skip over the slab list */
+	while (*str && *str != ';')
+		str++;
+
+	/* Skip any completely empty blocks */
+	while (*str && *str == ';')
+		str++;
+
+	if (init && higher_order_disable)
+		disable_higher_order_debug = 1;
+
+	if (*str)
+		return str;
+	else
+		return NULL;
+}
+
+static int __init setup_slub_debug(char *str)
+{
+	slab_flags_t flags;
+	char *saved_str;
+	char *slab_list;
+	bool global_slub_debug_changed = false;
+	bool slab_list_specified = false;
+
+	slub_debug = DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS;
+	if (*str++ != '=' || !*str)
+		/*
+		 * No options specified. Switch on full debugging.
+		 */
+		goto out;
+
+	saved_str = str;
+	while (str) {
+		str = parse_slub_debug_flags(str, &flags, &slab_list, true);
+
+		if (!slab_list) {
+			slub_debug = flags;
+			global_slub_debug_changed = true;
+		} else {
+			slab_list_specified = true;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * For backwards compatibility, a single list of flags with list of
+	 * slabs means debugging is only enabled for those slabs, so the global
+	 * slub_debug should be 0. We can extended that to multiple lists as
+	 * long as there is no option specifying flags without a slab list.
+	 */
+	if (slab_list_specified) {
+		if (!global_slub_debug_changed)
+			slub_debug = 0;
+		slub_debug_string = saved_str;
+	}
 out:
 	if ((static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_alloc) ||
 	     static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_free)) &&
@@ -1352,36 +1416,47 @@  slab_flags_t kmem_cache_flags(unsigned int object_size,
 {
 	char *iter;
 	size_t len;
+	char *next_block;
+	slab_flags_t block_flags;
 
 	/* If slub_debug = 0, it folds into the if conditional. */
-	if (!slub_debug_slabs)
+	if (!slub_debug_string)
 		return flags | slub_debug;
 
 	len = strlen(name);
-	iter = slub_debug_slabs;
-	while (*iter) {
-		char *end, *glob;
-		size_t cmplen;
-
-		end = strchrnul(iter, ',');
+	next_block = slub_debug_string;
+	/* Go through all blocks of debug options, see if any matches our slab's name */
+	while (next_block) {
+		next_block = parse_slub_debug_flags(next_block, &block_flags, &iter, false);
+		if (!iter)
+			continue;
+		/* Found a block that has a slab list, search it */
+		while (*iter) {
+			char *end, *glob;
+			size_t cmplen;
+
+			end = strchrnul(iter, ',');
+			if (next_block && next_block < end)
+				end = next_block - 1;
+
+			glob = strnchr(iter, end - iter, '*');
+			if (glob)
+				cmplen = glob - iter;
+			else
+				cmplen = max_t(size_t, len, (end - iter));
 
-		glob = strnchr(iter, end - iter, '*');
-		if (glob)
-			cmplen = glob - iter;
-		else
-			cmplen = max_t(size_t, len, (end - iter));
+			if (!strncmp(name, iter, cmplen)) {
+				flags |= block_flags;
+				return flags;
+			}
 
-		if (!strncmp(name, iter, cmplen)) {
-			flags |= slub_debug;
-			break;
+			if (!*end || *end == ';')
+				break;
+			iter = end + 1;
 		}
-
-		if (!*end)
-			break;
-		iter = end + 1;
 	}
 
-	return flags;
+	return slub_debug;
 }
 #else /* !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG */
 static inline void setup_object_debug(struct kmem_cache *s,