Revision 0ee931c4e31a5efb134c76440405e9219f896e33 authored by Michal Hocko on 13 September 2017, 23:28:29 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 14 September 2017, 01:53:16 UTC
GFP_TEMPORARY was introduced by commit e12ba74d8ff3 ("Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations") along with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE. It's primary motivation was to allow users to tell that an allocation is short lived and so the allocator can try to place such allocations close together and prevent long term fragmentation. As much as this sounds like a reasonable semantic it becomes much less clear when to use the highlevel GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag. How long is temporary? Can the context holding that memory sleep? Can it take locks? It seems there is no good answer for those questions. The current implementation of GFP_TEMPORARY is basically GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RECLAIMABLE which in itself is tricky because basically none of the existing caller provide a way to reclaim the allocated memory. So this is rather misleading and hard to evaluate for any benefits. I have checked some random users and none of them has added the flag with a specific justification. I suspect most of them just copied from other existing users and others just thought it might be a good idea to use without any measuring. This suggests that GFP_TEMPORARY just motivates for cargo cult usage without any reasoning. I believe that our gfp flags are quite complex already and especially those with highlevel semantic should be clearly defined to prevent from confusion and abuse. Therefore I propose dropping GFP_TEMPORARY and replace all existing users to simply use GFP_KERNEL. Please note that SLAB users with shrinkers will still get __GFP_RECLAIMABLE heuristic and so they will be placed properly for memory fragmentation prevention. I can see reasons we might want some gfp flag to reflect shorterm allocations but I propose starting from a clear semantic definition and only then add users with proper justification. This was been brought up before LSF this year by Matthew [1] and it turned out that GFP_TEMPORARY really doesn't have a clear semantic. It seems to be a heuristic without any measured advantage for most (if not all) its current users. The follow up discussion has revealed that opinions on what might be temporary allocation differ a lot between developers. So rather than trying to tweak existing users into a semantic which they haven't expected I propose to simply remove the flag and start from scratch if we really need a semantic for short term allocations. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118054945.GD18349@bombadil.infradead.org [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: drm/i915: fix up] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816144703.378d4f4d@canb.auug.org.au Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170728091904.14627-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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nsproxy.c
/*
* Copyright (C) 2006 IBM Corporation
*
* Author: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the
* License.
*
* Jun 2006 - namespaces support
* OpenVZ, SWsoft Inc.
* Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
*/
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
#include <linux/init_task.h>
#include <linux/mnt_namespace.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
#include <linux/ipc_namespace.h>
#include <linux/proc_ns.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/cgroup.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
static struct kmem_cache *nsproxy_cachep;
struct nsproxy init_nsproxy = {
.count = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
.uts_ns = &init_uts_ns,
#if defined(CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE) || defined(CONFIG_SYSVIPC)
.ipc_ns = &init_ipc_ns,
#endif
.mnt_ns = NULL,
.pid_ns_for_children = &init_pid_ns,
#ifdef CONFIG_NET
.net_ns = &init_net,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUPS
.cgroup_ns = &init_cgroup_ns,
#endif
};
static inline struct nsproxy *create_nsproxy(void)
{
struct nsproxy *nsproxy;
nsproxy = kmem_cache_alloc(nsproxy_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (nsproxy)
atomic_set(&nsproxy->count, 1);
return nsproxy;
}
/*
* Create new nsproxy and all of its the associated namespaces.
* Return the newly created nsproxy. Do not attach this to the task,
* leave it to the caller to do proper locking and attach it to task.
*/
static struct nsproxy *create_new_namespaces(unsigned long flags,
struct task_struct *tsk, struct user_namespace *user_ns,
struct fs_struct *new_fs)
{
struct nsproxy *new_nsp;
int err;
new_nsp = create_nsproxy();
if (!new_nsp)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
new_nsp->mnt_ns = copy_mnt_ns(flags, tsk->nsproxy->mnt_ns, user_ns, new_fs);
if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->mnt_ns)) {
err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->mnt_ns);
goto out_ns;
}
new_nsp->uts_ns = copy_utsname(flags, user_ns, tsk->nsproxy->uts_ns);
if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->uts_ns)) {
err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->uts_ns);
goto out_uts;
}
new_nsp->ipc_ns = copy_ipcs(flags, user_ns, tsk->nsproxy->ipc_ns);
if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->ipc_ns)) {
err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->ipc_ns);
goto out_ipc;
}
new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children =
copy_pid_ns(flags, user_ns, tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children);
if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children)) {
err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children);
goto out_pid;
}
new_nsp->cgroup_ns = copy_cgroup_ns(flags, user_ns,
tsk->nsproxy->cgroup_ns);
if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->cgroup_ns)) {
err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->cgroup_ns);
goto out_cgroup;
}
new_nsp->net_ns = copy_net_ns(flags, user_ns, tsk->nsproxy->net_ns);
if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->net_ns)) {
err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->net_ns);
goto out_net;
}
return new_nsp;
out_net:
put_cgroup_ns(new_nsp->cgroup_ns);
out_cgroup:
if (new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children)
put_pid_ns(new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children);
out_pid:
if (new_nsp->ipc_ns)
put_ipc_ns(new_nsp->ipc_ns);
out_ipc:
if (new_nsp->uts_ns)
put_uts_ns(new_nsp->uts_ns);
out_uts:
if (new_nsp->mnt_ns)
put_mnt_ns(new_nsp->mnt_ns);
out_ns:
kmem_cache_free(nsproxy_cachep, new_nsp);
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
/*
* called from clone. This now handles copy for nsproxy and all
* namespaces therein.
*/
int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
{
struct nsproxy *old_ns = tsk->nsproxy;
struct user_namespace *user_ns = task_cred_xxx(tsk, user_ns);
struct nsproxy *new_ns;
if (likely(!(flags & (CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC |
CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNET |
CLONE_NEWCGROUP)))) {
get_nsproxy(old_ns);
return 0;
}
if (!ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
/*
* CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the undolist: after switching
* to a new ipc namespace, the semaphore arrays from the old
* namespace are unreachable. In clone parlance, CLONE_SYSVSEM
* means share undolist with parent, so we must forbid using
* it along with CLONE_NEWIPC.
*/
if ((flags & (CLONE_NEWIPC | CLONE_SYSVSEM)) ==
(CLONE_NEWIPC | CLONE_SYSVSEM))
return -EINVAL;
new_ns = create_new_namespaces(flags, tsk, user_ns, tsk->fs);
if (IS_ERR(new_ns))
return PTR_ERR(new_ns);
tsk->nsproxy = new_ns;
return 0;
}
void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
{
if (ns->mnt_ns)
put_mnt_ns(ns->mnt_ns);
if (ns->uts_ns)
put_uts_ns(ns->uts_ns);
if (ns->ipc_ns)
put_ipc_ns(ns->ipc_ns);
if (ns->pid_ns_for_children)
put_pid_ns(ns->pid_ns_for_children);
put_cgroup_ns(ns->cgroup_ns);
put_net(ns->net_ns);
kmem_cache_free(nsproxy_cachep, ns);
}
/*
* Called from unshare. Unshare all the namespaces part of nsproxy.
* On success, returns the new nsproxy.
*/
int unshare_nsproxy_namespaces(unsigned long unshare_flags,
struct nsproxy **new_nsp, struct cred *new_cred, struct fs_struct *new_fs)
{
struct user_namespace *user_ns;
int err = 0;
if (!(unshare_flags & (CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC |
CLONE_NEWNET | CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWCGROUP)))
return 0;
user_ns = new_cred ? new_cred->user_ns : current_user_ns();
if (!ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
*new_nsp = create_new_namespaces(unshare_flags, current, user_ns,
new_fs ? new_fs : current->fs);
if (IS_ERR(*new_nsp)) {
err = PTR_ERR(*new_nsp);
goto out;
}
out:
return err;
}
void switch_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p, struct nsproxy *new)
{
struct nsproxy *ns;
might_sleep();
task_lock(p);
ns = p->nsproxy;
p->nsproxy = new;
task_unlock(p);
if (ns && atomic_dec_and_test(&ns->count))
free_nsproxy(ns);
}
void exit_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p)
{
switch_task_namespaces(p, NULL);
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setns, int, fd, int, nstype)
{
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
struct nsproxy *new_nsproxy;
struct file *file;
struct ns_common *ns;
int err;
file = proc_ns_fget(fd);
if (IS_ERR(file))
return PTR_ERR(file);
err = -EINVAL;
ns = get_proc_ns(file_inode(file));
if (nstype && (ns->ops->type != nstype))
goto out;
new_nsproxy = create_new_namespaces(0, tsk, current_user_ns(), tsk->fs);
if (IS_ERR(new_nsproxy)) {
err = PTR_ERR(new_nsproxy);
goto out;
}
err = ns->ops->install(new_nsproxy, ns);
if (err) {
free_nsproxy(new_nsproxy);
goto out;
}
switch_task_namespaces(tsk, new_nsproxy);
perf_event_namespaces(tsk);
out:
fput(file);
return err;
}
int __init nsproxy_cache_init(void)
{
nsproxy_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(nsproxy, SLAB_PANIC);
return 0;
}
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