Merge tag 'slab-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab

Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
"The main change is naturally the SLOB removal. Since its deprecation
in 6.2 I've seen no complaints so hopefully SLUB_(TINY) works well for
everyone and we can proceed.

Besides the code cleanup, the main immediate benefit will be allowing
kfree() family of function to work on kmem_cache_alloc() objects,
which was incompatible with SLOB. This includes kfree_rcu() which had
no kmem_cache_free_rcu() counterpart yet and now it shouldn't be
necessary anymore.

Besides that, there are several small code and comment improvements
from Thomas, Thorsten and Vernon"

* tag 'slab-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab:
mm/slab: document kfree() as allowed for kmem_cache_alloc() objects
mm/slob: remove slob.c
mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLOB code from slab common code
mm, pagemap: remove SLOB and SLQB from comments and documentation
mm, page_flags: remove PG_slob_free
mm/slob: remove CONFIG_SLOB
mm/slub: fix help comment of SLUB_DEBUG
mm: slub: make kobj_type structure constant
slab: Adjust comment after refactoring of gfp.h

Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst

···
    The page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. by undergoing read/write
    IO.
 7 - SLAB
-   The page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator.
-   When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head
-   page; SLOB will not flag it at all.
+   The page is managed by the SLAB/SLUB kernel memory allocator.
+   When compound page is used, either will only set this flag on the head
+   page.
 10 - BUDDY
     A free memory block managed by the buddy system allocator.
     The buddy system organizes free memory in blocks of various orders.

Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst

···
 After the cache is created kmem_cache_alloc() and its convenience
 wrappers can allocate memory from that cache.
 
-When the allocated memory is no longer needed it must be freed. You can
-use kvfree() for the memory allocated with `kmalloc`, `vmalloc` and
-`kvmalloc`. The slab caches should be freed with kmem_cache_free(). And
-don't forget to destroy the cache with kmem_cache_destroy().
+When the allocated memory is no longer needed it must be freed.
+
+Objects allocated by `kmalloc` can be freed by `kfree` or `kvfree`. Objects
+allocated by `kmem_cache_alloc` can be freed with `kmem_cache_free`, `kfree`
+or `kvfree`, where the latter two might be more convenient thanks to not
+needing the kmem_cache pointer.
+
+The same rules apply to _bulk and _rcu flavors of freeing functions.
+
+Memory allocated by `vmalloc` can be freed with `vfree` or `kvfree`.
+Memory allocated by `kvmalloc` can be freed with `kvfree`.
+Caches created by `kmem_cache_create` should be freed with
+`kmem_cache_destroy` only after freeing all the allocated objects first.

fs/proc/page.c

···
 	/*
 	 * pseudo flags for the well known (anonymous) memory mapped pages
 	 *
-	 * Note that page->_mapcount is overloaded in SLOB/SLUB/SLQB, so the
+	 * Note that page->_mapcount is overloaded in SLAB, so the
 	 * simple test in page_mapped() is not enough.
 	 */
 	if (!PageSlab(page) && page_mapped(page))
···
 
 
 	/*
-	 * Caveats on high order pages: page->_refcount will only be set
-	 * -1 on the head page; SLUB/SLQB do the same for PG_slab;
-	 * SLOB won't set PG_slab at all on compound pages.
+	 * Caveats on high order pages: PG_buddy and PG_slab will only be set
+	 * on the head page.
 	 */
 	if (PageBuddy(page))
 		u |= 1 << KPF_BUDDY;
···
 	u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_LOCKED,	PG_locked);
 
 	u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_SLAB,		PG_slab);
-	if (PageTail(page) && PageSlab(compound_head(page)))
+	if (PageTail(page) && PageSlab(page))
 		u |= 1 << KPF_SLAB;
 
 	u |= kpf_copy_bit(k, KPF_ERROR,		PG_error);

include/linux/page-flags.h

···
 	/* Remapped by swiotlb-xen. */
 	PG_xen_remapped = PG_owner_priv_1,
 
-	/* SLOB */
-	PG_slob_free = PG_private,
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
 	/*
 	 * Compound pages. Stored in first tail page's flags.
···
 PAGEFLAG(Workingset, workingset, PF_HEAD)
 	TESTCLEARFLAG(Workingset, workingset, PF_HEAD)
 __PAGEFLAG(Slab, slab, PF_NO_TAIL)
-__PAGEFLAG(SlobFree, slob_free, PF_NO_TAIL)
 PAGEFLAG(Checked, checked, PF_NO_COMPOUND)	   /* Used by some filesystems */
 
 /* Xen */

include/linux/rcupdate.h

···
  * either fall back to use of call_rcu() or rearrange the structure to
  * position the rcu_head structure into the first 4096 bytes.
  *
- * Note that the allowable offset might decrease in the future, for example,
- * to allow something like kmem_cache_free_rcu().
+ * The object to be freed can be allocated either by kmalloc() or
+ * kmem_cache_alloc().
+ *
+ * Note that the allowable offset might decrease in the future.
  *
  * The BUILD_BUG_ON check must not involve any function calls, hence the
  * checks are done in macros here.

include/linux/slab.h

···
 #endif
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SLOB
-/*
- * SLOB passes all requests larger than one page to the page allocator.
- * No kmalloc array is necessary since objects of different sizes can
- * be allocated from the same page.
- */
-#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH	PAGE_SHIFT
-#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX	(MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT - 1)
-#ifndef KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW
-#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW	3
-#endif
-#endif
-
 /* Maximum allocatable size */
 #define KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE	(1UL << KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX)
 /* Maximum size for which we actually use a slab cache */
···
 	NR_KMALLOC_TYPES
 };
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 extern struct kmem_cache *
 kmalloc_caches[NR_KMALLOC_TYPES][KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH + 1];
 
···
 }
 static_assert(PAGE_SHIFT <= 20);
 #define kmalloc_index(s) __kmalloc_index(s, true)
-#endif /* !CONFIG_SLOB */
 
 void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags) __assume_kmalloc_alignment __alloc_size(1);
 
···
 void kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, void **p);
 int kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size, void **p);
 
-/*
- * Caller must not use kfree_bulk() on memory not originally allocated
- * by kmalloc(), because the SLOB allocator cannot handle this.
- */
 static __always_inline void kfree_bulk(size_t size, void **p)
 {
 	kmem_cache_free_bulk(NULL, size, p);
···
  * to be at least to the size.
  *
  * The @flags argument may be one of the GFP flags defined at
- * include/linux/gfp.h and described at
+ * include/linux/gfp_types.h and described at
  * :ref:`Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst <mm-api-gfp-flags>`
  *
  * The recommended usage of the @flags is described at
···
  *	Try really hard to succeed the allocation but fail
  *	eventually.
  */
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 static __always_inline __alloc_size(1) void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && size) {
···
 	}
 	return __kmalloc(size, flags);
 }
-#else
-static __always_inline __alloc_size(1) void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
-{
-	if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)
-		return kmalloc_large(size, flags);
 
-	return __kmalloc(size, flags);
-}
-#endif
-
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 static __always_inline __alloc_size(1) void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
 {
 	if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && size) {
···
 	}
 	return __kmalloc_node(size, flags, node);
 }
-#else
-static __always_inline __alloc_size(1) void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
-{
-	if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)
-		return kmalloc_large_node(size, flags, node);
-
-	return __kmalloc_node(size, flags, node);
-}
-#endif
 
 /**
  * kmalloc_array - allocate memory for an array.

init/Kconfig

···
 
 config MEMCG_KMEM
 	bool
-	depends on MEMCG && !SLOB
+	depends on MEMCG
 	default y
 
 config BLK_CGROUP

kernel/configs/tiny.config

···
 # CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO is not set
 # CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4 is not set
 # CONFIG_SLAB is not set
-# CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED is not set
 CONFIG_SLUB=y
 CONFIG_SLUB_TINY=y

mm/Kconfig

···
 	   and has enhanced diagnostics. SLUB is the default choice for
 	   a slab allocator.
 
-config SLOB_DEPRECATED
-	depends on EXPERT
-	bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator - DEPRECATED)"
-	depends on !PREEMPT_RT
-	help
-	   Deprecated and scheduled for removal in a few cycles. SLUB
-	   recommended as replacement. CONFIG_SLUB_TINY can be considered
-	   on systems with 16MB or less RAM.
-
-	   If you need SLOB to stay, please contact [e-mail] and
-	   people listed in the SLAB ALLOCATOR section of MAINTAINERS file,
-	   with your use case.
-
-	   SLOB replaces the stock allocator with a drastically simpler
-	   allocator. SLOB is generally more space efficient but
-	   does not perform as well on large systems.
-
 endchoice
-
-config SLOB
-	bool
-	default y
-	depends on SLOB_DEPRECATED
 
 config SLUB_TINY
 	bool "Configure SLUB for minimal memory footprint"

mm/Kconfig.debug

···
 	select STACKDEPOT if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
 	help
 	  SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
-	  result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
-	  SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
-	  no support for cache validation etc.
+	  result in significant savings in code size. While /sys/kernel/slab
+	  will still exist (with SYSFS enabled), it will not provide e.g. cache
+	  validation.
 
 config SLUB_DEBUG_ON
 	bool "SLUB debugging on by default"

mm/Makefile

···
 # flaky coverage that is not a function of syscall inputs. E.g. slab is out of
 # free pages, or a task is migrated between nodes.
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_slab_common.o := n
-KCOV_INSTRUMENT_slob.o := n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_slab.o := n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_slub.o := n
 KCOV_INSTRUMENT_page_alloc.o := n
···
 obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA) 	+= mempolicy.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM)	+= sparse.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) += sparse-vmemmap.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_SLOB) += slob.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) += mmu_notifier.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KSM) += ksm.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING) += page_poison.o

mm/slab.h

···
 	};
 	unsigned int __unused;
 
-#elif defined(CONFIG_SLOB)
-
-	struct list_head slab_list;
-	void *__unused_1;
-	void *freelist;		/* first free block */
-	long units;
-	unsigned int __unused_2;
-
 #else
 #error "Unexpected slab allocator configured"
 #endif
···
 #define SLAB_MATCH(pg, sl)						\
 	static_assert(offsetof(struct page, pg) == offsetof(struct slab, sl))
 SLAB_MATCH(flags, __page_flags);
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 SLAB_MATCH(compound_head, slab_cache);	/* Ensure bit 0 is clear */
-#else
-SLAB_MATCH(compound_head, slab_list);	/* Ensure bit 0 is clear */
-#endif
 SLAB_MATCH(_refcount, __page_refcount);
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
 SLAB_MATCH(memcg_data, memcg_data);
···
 	return PAGE_SIZE << slab_order(slab);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SLOB
-/*
- * Common fields provided in kmem_cache by all slab allocators
- * This struct is either used directly by the allocator (SLOB)
- * or the allocator must include definitions for all fields
- * provided in kmem_cache_common in their definition of kmem_cache.
- *
- * Once we can do anonymous structs (C11 standard) we could put a
- * anonymous struct definition in these allocators so that the
- * separate allocations in the kmem_cache structure of SLAB and
- * SLUB is no longer needed.
- */
-struct kmem_cache {
-	unsigned int object_size;/* The original size of the object */
-	unsigned int size;	/* The aligned/padded/added on size  */
-	unsigned int align;	/* Alignment as calculated */
-	slab_flags_t flags;	/* Active flags on the slab */
-	const char *name;	/* Slab name for sysfs */
-	int refcount;		/* Use counter */
-	void (*ctor)(void *);	/* Called on object slot creation */
-	struct list_head list;	/* List of all slab caches on the system */
-};
-
-#endif /* CONFIG_SLOB */
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLAB
 #include <linux/slab_def.h>
 #endif
···
 	unsigned int size;
 } kmalloc_info[];
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 /* Kmalloc array related functions */
 void setup_kmalloc_cache_index_table(void);
 void create_kmalloc_caches(slab_flags_t);
···
 			      int node, size_t orig_size,
 			      unsigned long caller);
 void __kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x, unsigned long caller);
-#endif
 
 gfp_t kmalloc_fix_flags(gfp_t flags);
 
···
 int slab_unmergeable(struct kmem_cache *s);
 struct kmem_cache *find_mergeable(unsigned size, unsigned align,
 		slab_flags_t flags, const char *name, void (*ctor)(void *));
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 struct kmem_cache *
 __kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, unsigned int size, unsigned int align,
 		   slab_flags_t flags, void (*ctor)(void *));
 
 slab_flags_t kmem_cache_flags(unsigned int object_size,
 	slab_flags_t flags, const char *name);
-#else
-static inline struct kmem_cache *
-__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, unsigned int size, unsigned int align,
-		   slab_flags_t flags, void (*ctor)(void *))
-{ return NULL; }
-
-static inline slab_flags_t kmem_cache_flags(unsigned int object_size,
-	slab_flags_t flags, const char *name)
-{
-	return flags;
-}
-#endif
 
 static inline bool is_kmalloc_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)
 {
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 	return (s->flags & SLAB_KMALLOC);
-#else
-	return false;
-#endif
 }
 
 /* Legal flag mask for kmem_cache_create(), for various configurations */
···
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 static inline struct kmem_cache *virt_to_cache(const void *obj)
 {
 	struct slab *slab;
···
 }
 
 void free_large_kmalloc(struct folio *folio, void *object);
-
-#endif /* CONFIG_SLOB */
 
 size_t __ksize(const void *objp);
 
···
 	memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook(s, objcg, flags, size, p);
 }
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 /*
  * The slab lists for all objects.
  */
···
 	for (__node = 0; __node < nr_node_ids; __node++) \
 		 if ((__n = get_node(__s, __node)))
 
-#endif
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_SLAB) || defined(CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG)
 void dump_unreclaimable_slab(void);

mm/slab_common.c

···
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmem_dump_obj);
 #endif
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 /* Create a cache during boot when no slab services are available yet */
 void __init create_boot_cache(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *name,
 		unsigned int size, slab_flags_t flags,
···
 
 /**
  * kfree - free previously allocated memory
- * @object: pointer returned by kmalloc.
+ * @object: pointer returned by kmalloc() or kmem_cache_alloc()
  *
  * If @object is NULL, no operation is performed.
- *
- * Don't free memory not originally allocated by kmalloc()
- * or you will run into trouble.
  */
 void kfree(const void *object)
 {
···
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_node_trace);
-#endif /* !CONFIG_SLOB */
 
 gfp_t kmalloc_fix_flags(gfp_t flags)
 {

mm/slob.c

···
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-/*
- * SLOB Allocator: Simple List Of Blocks
- *
- * Matt Mackall <[e-mail]> 12/30/03
- *
- * NUMA support by Paul Mundt, 2007.
- *
- * How SLOB works:
- *
- * The core of SLOB is a traditional K&R style heap allocator, with
- * support for returning aligned objects. The granularity of this
- * allocator is as little as 2 bytes, however typically most architectures
- * will require 4 bytes on 32-bit and 8 bytes on 64-bit.
- *
- * The slob heap is a set of linked list of pages from alloc_pages(),
- * and within each page, there is a singly-linked list of free blocks
- * (slob_t). The heap is grown on demand. To reduce fragmentation,
- * heap pages are segregated into three lists, with objects less than
- * 256 bytes, objects less than 1024 bytes, and all other objects.
- *
- * Allocation from heap involves first searching for a page with
- * sufficient free blocks (using a next-fit-like approach) followed by
- * a first-fit scan of the page. Deallocation inserts objects back
- * into the free list in address order, so this is effectively an
- * address-ordered first fit.
- *
- * Above this is an implementation of kmalloc/kfree. Blocks returned
- * from kmalloc are prepended with a 4-byte header with the kmalloc size.
- * If kmalloc is asked for objects of PAGE_SIZE or larger, it calls
- * alloc_pages() directly, allocating compound pages so the page order
- * does not have to be separately tracked.
- * These objects are detected in kfree() because folio_test_slab()
- * is false for them.
- *
- * SLAB is emulated on top of SLOB by simply calling constructors and
- * destructors for every SLAB allocation. Objects are returned with the
- * 4-byte alignment unless the SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN flag is set, in which
- * case the low-level allocator will fragment blocks to create the proper
- * alignment. Again, objects of page-size or greater are allocated by
- * calling alloc_pages(). As SLAB objects know their size, no separate
- * size bookkeeping is necessary and there is essentially no allocation
- * space overhead, and compound pages aren't needed for multi-page
- * allocations.
- *
- * NUMA support in SLOB is fairly simplistic, pushing most of the real
- * logic down to the page allocator, and simply doing the node accounting
- * on the upper levels. In the event that a node id is explicitly
- * provided, __alloc_pages_node() with the specified node id is used
- * instead. The common case (or when the node id isn't explicitly provided)
- * will default to the current node, as per numa_node_id().
- *
- * Node aware pages are still inserted in to the global freelist, and
- * these are scanned for by matching against the node id encoded in the
- * page flags. As a result, block allocations that can be satisfied from
- * the freelist will only be done so on pages residing on the same node,
- * in order to prevent random node placement.
- */
-
-#include <linux/kernel.h>
-#include <linux/slab.h>
-
-#include <linux/mm.h>
-#include <linux/swap.h> /* struct reclaim_state */
-#include <linux/cache.h>
-#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/export.h>
-#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
-#include <linux/list.h>
-#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
-
-#include <trace/events/kmem.h>
-
-#include <linux/atomic.h>
-
-#include "slab.h"
-/*
- * slob_block has a field 'units', which indicates size of block if +ve,
- * or offset of next block if -ve (in SLOB_UNITs).
- *
- * Free blocks of size 1 unit simply contain the offset of the next block.
- * Those with larger size contain their size in the first SLOB_UNIT of
- * memory, and the offset of the next free block in the second SLOB_UNIT.
- */
-#if PAGE_SIZE <= (32767 * 2)
-typedef s16 slobidx_t;
-#else
-typedef s32 slobidx_t;
-#endif
-
-struct slob_block {
-	slobidx_t units;
-};
-typedef struct slob_block slob_t;
-
-/*
- * All partially free slob pages go on these lists.
- */
-#define SLOB_BREAK1 256
-#define SLOB_BREAK2 1024
-static LIST_HEAD(free_slob_small);
-static LIST_HEAD(free_slob_medium);
-static LIST_HEAD(free_slob_large);
-
-/*
- * slob_page_free: true for pages on free_slob_pages list.
- */
-static inline int slob_page_free(struct slab *slab)
-{
-	return PageSlobFree(slab_page(slab));
-}
-
-static void set_slob_page_free(struct slab *slab, struct list_head *list)
-{
-	list_add(&slab->slab_list, list);
-	__SetPageSlobFree(slab_page(slab));
-}
-
-static inline void clear_slob_page_free(struct slab *slab)
-{
-	list_del(&slab->slab_list);
-	__ClearPageSlobFree(slab_page(slab));
-}
-
-#define SLOB_UNIT sizeof(slob_t)
-#define SLOB_UNITS(size) DIV_ROUND_UP(size, SLOB_UNIT)
-
-/*
- * struct slob_rcu is inserted at the tail of allocated slob blocks, which
- * were created with a SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slab. slob_rcu is used to free
- * the block using call_rcu.
- */
-struct slob_rcu {
-	struct rcu_head head;
-	int size;
-};
-
-/*
- * slob_lock protects all slob allocator structures.
- */
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(slob_lock);
-
-/*
- * Encode the given size and next info into a free slob block s.
- */
-static void set_slob(slob_t *s, slobidx_t size, slob_t *next)
-{
-	slob_t *base = (slob_t *)((unsigned long)s & PAGE_MASK);
-	slobidx_t offset = next - base;
-
-	if (size > 1) {
-		s[0].units = size;
-		s[1].units = offset;
-	} else
-		s[0].units = -offset;
-}
-
-/*
- * Return the size of a slob block.
- */
-static slobidx_t slob_units(slob_t *s)
-{
-	if (s->units > 0)
-		return s->units;
-	return 1;
-}
-
-/*
- * Return the next free slob block pointer after this one.
- */
-static slob_t *slob_next(slob_t *s)
-{
-	slob_t *base = (slob_t *)((unsigned long)s & PAGE_MASK);
-	slobidx_t next;
-
-	if (s[0].units < 0)
-		next = -s[0].units;
-	else
-		next = s[1].units;
-	return base+next;
-}
-
-/*
- * Returns true if s is the last free block in its page.
- */
-static int slob_last(slob_t *s)
-{
-	return !((unsigned long)slob_next(s) & ~PAGE_MASK);
-}
-
-static void *slob_new_pages(gfp_t gfp, int order, int node)
-{
-	struct page *page;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-	if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE)
-		page = __alloc_pages_node(node, gfp, order);
-	else
-#endif
-		page = alloc_pages(gfp, order);
-
-	if (!page)
-		return NULL;
-
-	mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
-			    PAGE_SIZE << order);
-	return page_address(page);
-}
-
-static void slob_free_pages(void *b, int order)
-{
-	struct page *sp = virt_to_page(b);
-
-	if (current->reclaim_state)
-		current->reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab += 1 << order;
-
-	mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(sp), NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
-			    -(PAGE_SIZE << order));
-	__free_pages(sp, order);
-}
-
-/*
- * slob_page_alloc() - Allocate a slob block within a given slob_page sp.
- * @sp: Page to look in.
- * @size: Size of the allocation.
- * @align: Allocation alignment.
- * @align_offset: Offset in the allocated block that will be aligned.
- * @page_removed_from_list: Return parameter.
- *
- * Tries to find a chunk of memory at least @size bytes big within @page.
- *
- * Return: Pointer to memory if allocated, %NULL otherwise.  If the
- *         allocation fills up @page then the page is removed from the
- *         freelist, in this case @page_removed_from_list will be set to
- *         true (set to false otherwise).
- */
-static void *slob_page_alloc(struct slab *sp, size_t size, int align,
-			      int align_offset, bool *page_removed_from_list)
-{
-	slob_t *prev, *cur, *aligned = NULL;
-	int delta = 0, units = SLOB_UNITS(size);
-
-	*page_removed_from_list = false;
-	for (prev = NULL, cur = sp->freelist; ; prev = cur, cur = slob_next(cur)) {
-		slobidx_t avail = slob_units(cur);
-
-		/*
-		 * 'aligned' will hold the address of the slob block so that the
-		 * address 'aligned'+'align_offset' is aligned according to the
-		 * 'align' parameter. This is for kmalloc() which prepends the
-		 * allocated block with its size, so that the block itself is
-		 * aligned when needed.
-		 */
-		if (align) {
-			aligned = (slob_t *)
-				(ALIGN((unsigned long)cur + align_offset, align)
-				 - align_offset);
-			delta = aligned - cur;
-		}
-		if (avail >= units + delta) { /* room enough? */
-			slob_t *next;
-
-			if (delta) { /* need to fragment head to align? */
-				next = slob_next(cur);
-				set_slob(aligned, avail - delta, next);
-				set_slob(cur, delta, aligned);
-				prev = cur;
-				cur = aligned;
-				avail = slob_units(cur);
-			}
-
-			next = slob_next(cur);
-			if (avail == units) { /* exact fit? unlink. */
-				if (prev)
-					set_slob(prev, slob_units(prev), next);
-				else
-					sp->freelist = next;
-			} else { /* fragment */
-				if (prev)
-					set_slob(prev, slob_units(prev), cur + units);
-				else
-					sp->freelist = cur + units;
-				set_slob(cur + units, avail - units, next);
-			}
-
-			sp->units -= units;
-			if (!sp->units) {
-				clear_slob_page_free(sp);
-				*page_removed_from_list = true;
-			}
-			return cur;
-		}
-		if (slob_last(cur))
-			return NULL;
-	}
-}
-
-/*
- * slob_alloc: entry point into the slob allocator.
- */
-static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align, int node,
-							int align_offset)
-{
-	struct folio *folio;
-	struct slab *sp;
-	struct list_head *slob_list;
-	slob_t *b = NULL;
-	unsigned long flags;
-	bool _unused;
-
-	if (size < SLOB_BREAK1)
-		slob_list = &free_slob_small;
-	else if (size < SLOB_BREAK2)
-		slob_list = &free_slob_medium;
-	else
-		slob_list = &free_slob_large;
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&slob_lock, flags);
-	/* Iterate through each partially free page, try to find room */
-	list_for_each_entry(sp, slob_list, slab_list) {
-		bool page_removed_from_list = false;
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-		/*
-		 * If there's a node specification, search for a partial
-		 * page with a matching node id in the freelist.
-		 */
-		if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE && slab_nid(sp) != node)
-			continue;
-#endif
-		/* Enough room on this page? */
-		if (sp->units < SLOB_UNITS(size))
-			continue;
-
-		b = slob_page_alloc(sp, size, align, align_offset, &page_removed_from_list);
-		if (!b)
-			continue;
-
-		/*
-		 * If slob_page_alloc() removed sp from the list then we
-		 * cannot call list functions on sp.  If so allocation
-		 * did not fragment the page anyway so optimisation is
-		 * unnecessary.
-		 */
-		if (!page_removed_from_list) {
-			/*
-			 * Improve fragment distribution and reduce our average
-			 * search time by starting our next search here. (see
-			 * Knuth vol 1, sec 2.5, pg 449)
-			 */
-			if (!list_is_first(&sp->slab_list, slob_list))
-				list_rotate_to_front(&sp->slab_list, slob_list);
-		}
-		break;
-	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slob_lock, flags);
-
-	/* Not enough space: must allocate a new page */
-	if (!b) {
-		b = slob_new_pages(gfp & ~__GFP_ZERO, 0, node);
-		if (!b)
-			return NULL;
-		folio = virt_to_folio(b);
-		__folio_set_slab(folio);
-		sp = folio_slab(folio);
-
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&slob_lock, flags);
-		sp->units = SLOB_UNITS(PAGE_SIZE);
-		sp->freelist = b;
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sp->slab_list);
-		set_slob(b, SLOB_UNITS(PAGE_SIZE), b + SLOB_UNITS(PAGE_SIZE));
-		set_slob_page_free(sp, slob_list);
-		b = slob_page_alloc(sp, size, align, align_offset, &_unused);
-		BUG_ON(!b);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slob_lock, flags);
-	}
-	if (unlikely(gfp & __GFP_ZERO))
-		memset(b, 0, size);
-	return b;
-}
-
-/*
- * slob_free: entry point into the slob allocator.
- */
-static void slob_free(void *block, int size)
-{
-	struct slab *sp;
-	slob_t *prev, *next, *b = (slob_t *)block;
-	slobidx_t units;
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct list_head *slob_list;
-
-	if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block)))
-		return;
-	BUG_ON(!size);
-
-	sp = virt_to_slab(block);
-	units = SLOB_UNITS(size);
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&slob_lock, flags);
-
-	if (sp->units + units == SLOB_UNITS(PAGE_SIZE)) {
-		/* Go directly to page allocator. Do not pass slob allocator */
-		if (slob_page_free(sp))
-			clear_slob_page_free(sp);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slob_lock, flags);
-		__folio_clear_slab(slab_folio(sp));
-		slob_free_pages(b, 0);
-		return;
-	}
-
-	if (!slob_page_free(sp)) {
-		/* This slob page is about to become partially free. Easy! */
-		sp->units = units;
-		sp->freelist = b;
-		set_slob(b, units,
-			(void *)((unsigned long)(b +
-					SLOB_UNITS(PAGE_SIZE)) & PAGE_MASK));
-		if (size < SLOB_BREAK1)
-			slob_list = &free_slob_small;
-		else if (size < SLOB_BREAK2)
-			slob_list = &free_slob_medium;
-		else
-			slob_list = &free_slob_large;
-		set_slob_page_free(sp, slob_list);
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Otherwise the page is already partially free, so find reinsertion
-	 * point.
-	 */
-	sp->units += units;
-
-	if (b < (slob_t *)sp->freelist) {
-		if (b + units == sp->freelist) {
-			units += slob_units(sp->freelist);
-			sp->freelist = slob_next(sp->freelist);
-		}
-		set_slob(b, units, sp->freelist);
-		sp->freelist = b;
-	} else {
-		prev = sp->freelist;
-		next = slob_next(prev);
-		while (b > next) {
-			prev = next;
-			next = slob_next(prev);
-		}
-
-		if (!slob_last(prev) && b + units == next) {
-			units += slob_units(next);
-			set_slob(b, units, slob_next(next));
-		} else
-			set_slob(b, units, next);
-
-		if (prev + slob_units(prev) == b) {
-			units = slob_units(b) + slob_units(prev);
-			set_slob(prev, units, slob_next(b));
-		} else
-			set_slob(prev, slob_units(prev), b);
-	}
-out:
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slob_lock, flags);
-}
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
-void __kmem_obj_info(struct kmem_obj_info *kpp, void *object, struct slab *slab)
-{
-	kpp->kp_ptr = object;
-	kpp->kp_slab = slab;
-}
-#endif
-
-/*
- * End of slob allocator proper. Begin kmem_cache_alloc and kmalloc frontend.
- */
-
-static __always_inline void *
-__do_kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node, unsigned long caller)
-{
-	unsigned int *m;
-	unsigned int minalign;
-	void *ret;
-
-	minalign = max_t(unsigned int, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,
-			 arch_slab_minalign());
-	gfp &= gfp_allowed_mask;
-
-	might_alloc(gfp);
-
-	if (size < PAGE_SIZE - minalign) {
-		int align = minalign;
-
-		/*
-		 * For power of two sizes, guarantee natural alignment for
-		 * kmalloc()'d objects.
-		 */
-		if (is_power_of_2(size))
-			align = max_t(unsigned int, minalign, size);
-
-		if (!size)
-			return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
-
-		m = slob_alloc(size + minalign, gfp, align, node, minalign);
-
-		if (!m)
-			return NULL;
-		*m = size;
-		ret = (void *)m + minalign;
-
-		trace_kmalloc(caller, ret, size, size + minalign, gfp, node);
-	} else {
-		unsigned int order = get_order(size);
-
-		if (likely(order))
-			gfp |= __GFP_COMP;
-		ret = slob_new_pages(gfp, order, node);
-
-		trace_kmalloc(caller, ret, size, PAGE_SIZE << order, gfp, node);
-	}
-
-	kmemleak_alloc(ret, size, 1, gfp);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
-{
-	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, NUMA_NO_NODE, _RET_IP_);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);
-
-void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
-					int node, unsigned long caller)
-{
-	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, node, caller);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_node_track_caller);
-
-void kfree(const void *block)
-{
-	struct folio *sp;
-
-	trace_kfree(_RET_IP_, block);
-
-	if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(block)))
-		return;
-	kmemleak_free(block);
-
-	sp = virt_to_folio(block);
-	if (folio_test_slab(sp)) {
-		unsigned int align = max_t(unsigned int,
-					   ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,
-					   arch_slab_minalign());
-		unsigned int *m = (unsigned int *)(block - align);
-
-		slob_free(m, *m + align);
-	} else {
-		unsigned int order = folio_order(sp);
-
-		mod_node_page_state(folio_pgdat(sp), NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
-				    -(PAGE_SIZE << order));
-		__free_pages(folio_page(sp, 0), order);
-
-	}
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
-
-size_t kmalloc_size_roundup(size_t size)
-{
-	/* Short-circuit the 0 size case. */
-	if (unlikely(size == 0))
-		return 0;
-	/* Short-circuit saturated "too-large" case. */
-	if (unlikely(size == SIZE_MAX))
-		return SIZE_MAX;
-
-	return ALIGN(size, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN);
-}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_size_roundup);
-
-/* can't use ksize for kmem_cache_alloc memory, only kmalloc */
-size_t __ksize(const void *block)
-{
-	struct folio *folio;
-	unsigned int align;
-	unsigned int *m;
-
-	BUG_ON(!block);
-	if (unlikely(block == ZERO_SIZE_PTR))
-		return 0;
-
-	folio = virt_to_folio(block);
-	if (unlikely(!folio_test_slab(folio)))
-		return folio_size(folio);
-
-	align = max_t(unsigned int, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,
-		      arch_slab_minalign());
-	m = (unsigned int *)(block - align);
-	return SLOB_UNITS(*m) * SLOB_UNIT;
-}
-
-int __kmem_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *c, slab_flags_t flags)
-{
-	if (flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU) {
-		/* leave room for rcu footer at the end of object */
-		c->size += sizeof(struct slob_rcu);
-	}
-
-	/* Actual size allocated */
-	c->size = SLOB_UNITS(c->size) * SLOB_UNIT;
-	c->flags = flags;
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static void *slob_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags, int node)
-{
-	void *b;
-
-	flags &= gfp_allowed_mask;
-
-	might_alloc(flags);
-
-	if (c->size < PAGE_SIZE) {
-		b = slob_alloc(c->size, flags, c->align, node, 0);
-		trace_kmem_cache_alloc(_RET_IP_, b, c, flags, node);
-	} else {
-		b = slob_new_pages(flags, get_order(c->size), node);
-		trace_kmem_cache_alloc(_RET_IP_, b, c, flags, node);
-	}
-
-	if (b && c->ctor) {
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & __GFP_ZERO);
-		c->ctor(b);
-	}
-
-	kmemleak_alloc_recursive(b, c->size, 1, c->flags, flags);
-	return b;
-}
-
-void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
-{
-	return slob_alloc_node(cachep, flags, NUMA_NO_NODE);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
-
-
-void *kmem_cache_alloc_lru(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct list_lru *lru, gfp_t flags)
-{
-	return slob_alloc_node(cachep, flags, NUMA_NO_NODE);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_lru);
-
-void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int node)
-{
-	return __do_kmalloc_node(size, gfp, node, _RET_IP_);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_node);
-
-void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t gfp, int node)
-{
-	return slob_alloc_node(cachep, gfp, node);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_node);
-
-static void __kmem_cache_free(void *b, int size)
-{
-	if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
-		slob_free(b, size);
-	else
-		slob_free_pages(b, get_order(size));
-}
-
-static void kmem_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
-{
-	struct slob_rcu *slob_rcu = (struct slob_rcu *)head;
-	void *b = (void *)slob_rcu - (slob_rcu->size - sizeof(struct slob_rcu));
-
-	__kmem_cache_free(b, slob_rcu->size);
-}
-
-void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b)
-{
-	kmemleak_free_recursive(b, c->flags);
-	trace_kmem_cache_free(_RET_IP_, b, c);
-	if (unlikely(c->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU)) {
-		struct slob_rcu *slob_rcu;
-		slob_rcu = b + (c->size - sizeof(struct slob_rcu));
-		slob_rcu->size = c->size;
-		call_rcu(&slob_rcu->head, kmem_rcu_free);
-	} else {
-		__kmem_cache_free(b, c->size);
-	}
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);
-
-void kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t nr, void **p)
-{
-	size_t i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
-		if (s)
-			kmem_cache_free(s, p[i]);
-		else
-			kfree(p[i]);
-	}
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free_bulk);
-
-int kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t nr,
-								void **p)
-{
-	size_t i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
-		void *x = p[i] = kmem_cache_alloc(s, flags);
-
-		if (!x) {
-			kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, i, p);
-			return 0;
-		}
-	}
-	return i;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_bulk);
-
-int __kmem_cache_shutdown(struct kmem_cache *c)
-{
-	/* No way to check for remaining objects */
-	return 0;
-}
-
-void __kmem_cache_release(struct kmem_cache *c)
-{
-}
-
-int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *d)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_boot = {
-	.name = "kmem_cache",
-	.size = sizeof(struct kmem_cache),
-	.flags = SLAB_PANIC,
-	.align = ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,
-};
-
-void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
-{
-	kmem_cache = &kmem_cache_boot;
-	slab_state = UP;
-}
-
-void __init kmem_cache_init_late(void)
-{
-	slab_state = FULL;
-}

mm/slub.c

···
 	.store = slab_attr_store,
 };
 
-static struct kobj_type slab_ktype = {
+static const struct kobj_type slab_ktype = {
 	.sysfs_ops = &slab_sysfs_ops,
 	.release = kmem_cache_release,
 };

tools/mm/page-types.c

···
  */
 #define KPF_ANON_EXCLUSIVE	47
 #define KPF_READAHEAD		48
-#define KPF_SLOB_FREE		49
 #define KPF_SLUB_FROZEN		50
 #define KPF_SLUB_DEBUG		51
 #define KPF_FILE		61
···
 
 	[KPF_ANON_EXCLUSIVE]	= "d:anon_exclusive",
 	[KPF_READAHEAD]		= "I:readahead",
-	[KPF_SLOB_FREE]		= "P:slob_free",
 	[KPF_SLUB_FROZEN]	= "A:slub_frozen",
 	[KPF_SLUB_DEBUG]	= "E:slub_debug",
 
···
 	if ((flags & BIT(ANON)) && (flags & BIT(MAPPEDTODISK)))
 		flags ^= BIT(MAPPEDTODISK) | BIT(ANON_EXCLUSIVE);
 
-	/* SLOB/SLUB overload several page flags */
+	/* SLUB overloads several page flags */
 	if (flags & BIT(SLAB)) {
-		if (flags & BIT(PRIVATE))
-			flags ^= BIT(PRIVATE) | BIT(SLOB_FREE);
 		if (flags & BIT(ACTIVE))
 			flags ^= BIT(ACTIVE) | BIT(SLUB_FROZEN);
 		if (flags & BIT(ERROR))