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In __kfence_alloc() and __kfence_free(), we will set and check canary. Assuming that the size of the object is close to 0, nearly 4k memory accesses are required because setting and checking canary is executed byte by byte. canary is now defined like this: KFENCE_CANARY_PATTERN(addr) ((u8)0xaa ^ (u8)((unsigned long)(addr) & 0x7)) Observe that canary is only related to the lower three bits of the address, so every 8 bytes of canary are the same. We can access 8-byte canary each time instead of byte-by-byte, thereby optimizing nearly 4k memory accesses to 4k/8 times. Use the bcc tool funclatency to measure the latency of __kfence_alloc() and __kfence_free(), the numbers (deleted the distribution of latency) is posted below. Though different object sizes will have an impact on the measurement, we ignore it for now and assume the average object size is roughly equal. Before patching: __kfence_alloc: avg = 5055 nsecs, total: 5515252 nsecs, count: 1091 __kfence_free: avg = 5319 nsecs, total: 9735130 nsecs, count: 1830 After patching: __kfence_alloc: avg = 3597 nsecs, total: 6428491 nsecs, count: 1787 __kfence_free: avg = 3046 nsecs, total: 3415390 nsecs, count: 1121 The numbers indicate that there is ~30% - ~40% performance improvement. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230403122738.6006-1-zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.