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authorImran Khan <[email protected]>2022-08-15 05:53:53 +1000
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2022-09-11 20:25:52 -0700
commitb84e04f1baeebe6872b22a027cfc558621e842d4 (patch)
tree144f0b2e5357717a15231f00013e6cabbc2c8b99 /tools/perf/scripts/python/bin
parent831568214883e0a9940f776771343420306d2341 (diff)
kfence: add sysfs interface to disable kfence for selected slabs.
By default kfence allocation can happen for any slab object, whose size is up to PAGE_SIZE, as long as that allocation is the first allocation after expiration of kfence sample interval. But in certain debugging scenarios we may be interested in debugging corruptions involving some specific slub objects like dentry or ext4_* etc. In such cases limiting kfence for allocations involving only specific slub objects will increase the probablity of catching the issue since kfence pool will not be consumed by other slab objects. This patch introduces a sysfs interface '/sys/kernel/slab/<name>/skip_kfence' to disable kfence for specific slabs. Having the interface work in this way does not impact current/default behavior of kfence and allows us to use kfence for specific slabs (when needed) as well. The decision to skip/use kfence is taken depending on whether kmem_cache.flags has (newly introduced) SLAB_SKIP_KFENCE flag set or not. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Imran Khan <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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