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With the introduction of stack depot evictions, each stack record is now fixed size, so that future reuse after an eviction can safely store differently sized stack traces. In all cases that do not make use of evictions, this wastes lots of space. Fix it by re-introducing variable size stack records (up to the max allowed size) for entries that will never be evicted. We know if an entry will never be evicted if the flag STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_GET is not provided, since a later stack_depot_put() attempt is undefined behavior. With my current kernel config that enables KASAN and also SLUB owner tracking, I observe (after a kernel boot) a whopping reduction of 296 stack depot pools, which translates into 4736 KiB saved. The savings here are from SLUB owner tracking only, because KASAN generic mode still uses refcounting. Before: pools: 893 allocations: 29841 frees: 6524 in_use: 23317 freelist_size: 3454 After: pools: 597 refcounted_allocations: 17547 refcounted_frees: 6477 refcounted_in_use: 11070 freelist_size: 3497 persistent_count: 12163 persistent_bytes: 1717008 [elver@google.com: fix -Wstringop-overflow warning] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240201135747.18eca98e@canb.auug.org.au/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240201090434.1762340-1-elver@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABXGCsOzpRPZGg23QqJAzKnqkZPKzvieeg=W7sgjgi3q0pBo0g@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129100708.39460-1-elver@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABXGCsOzpRPZGg23QqJAzKnqkZPKzvieeg=W7sgjgi3q0pBo0g@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 108be8def46e ("lib/stackdepot: allow users to evict stack traces") Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> 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.