Yeah, I was only able to test it for backwards-compatibility on a handful
of sample pre-4.6 SLAB kernels because RHEL/Fedora uses SLUB, so I'm totally
trusting your preceding reputation...
Thanks again,
Dave
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > In this mode, the freelist can be an object and if the slab is full,
> > there is no freelist. On the next free, an object is recycled to be used
> > as the freelist but not clean-up. This change will go through only
> > known freed objects to prevent errors of wrong/corrupt freelist entries.
> >
> > Related to the linux kernel commit: b03a017bebc403d40aa53a092e79b3
> 020786537d.
>
> Thanks Thomas -- the patch queued for crash-7.1.8:
>
>
https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/
> 59fbaf3e4b030b150f750f5b0ac7dfc3eafaa78f
>
> Dave
>
>
> > ---
> > memory.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c
> > index 4eac413..774d090 100644
> > --- a/memory.c
> > +++ b/memory.c
> > @@ -9880,6 +9880,7 @@ ignore_cache(struct meminfo *si, char *name)
> > #define SLAB_MAGIC_DESTROYED 0xB2F23C5AUL /* slab has been
> destroyed
> > */
> >
> > #define SLAB_CFLGS_BUFCTL 0x020000UL /* bufctls in own cache
> */
> > +#define SLAB_CFLGS_OBJFREELIST 0x40000000UL /* Freelist as an
> object */
> >
> > #define KMEM_SLAB_ADDR (1)
> > #define KMEM_BUFCTL_ADDR (2)
> > @@ -12439,11 +12440,13 @@ gather_slab_free_list_percpu(struct meminfo
> *si)
> > static void
> > gather_slab_free_list_slab_overload_page(struct meminfo *si)
> > {
> > - int i, active;
> > + int i, active, start_offset;
> > ulong obj, objnr, cnt, freelist;
> > unsigned char *ucharptr;
> > unsigned short *ushortptr;
> > unsigned int *uintptr;
> > + unsigned int cache_flags, overload_active;
> > + ulong slab_overload_page;
> >
> > if (CRASHDEBUG(1))
> > fprintf(fp, "slab page: %lx active: %ld si->c_num:
%ld\n",
> > @@ -12452,12 +12455,19 @@ gather_slab_free_list_slab_
> overload_page(struct
> > meminfo *si)
> > if (si->s_inuse == si->c_num )
> > return;
> >
> > - readmem(si->slab - OFFSET(page_lru) + OFFSET(page_freelist),
> > + slab_overload_page = si->slab - OFFSET(page_lru);
> > + readmem(slab_overload_page + OFFSET(page_freelist),
> > KVADDR, &freelist, sizeof(void *), "page
freelist",
> > FAULT_ON_ERROR);
> > readmem(freelist, KVADDR, si->freelist,
> > si->freelist_index_size * si->c_num,
> > "freelist array", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
> > + readmem(si->cache+OFFSET(kmem_cache_s_flags),
> > + KVADDR, &cache_flags, sizeof(uint),
> > + "kmem_cache_s flags", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
> > + readmem(slab_overload_page + OFFSET(page_active),
> > + KVADDR, &overload_active, sizeof(uint),
> > + "active", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
> >
> > BNEG(si->addrlist, sizeof(ulong) * (si->c_num+1));
> > cnt = objnr = 0;
> > @@ -12466,14 +12476,22 @@ gather_slab_free_list_slab_
> overload_page(struct
> > meminfo *si)
> > uintptr = NULL;
> > active = si->s_inuse;
> >
> > + /*
> > + * On an OBJFREELIST slab, the object might have been recycled
> > + * and everything before the active count can be random data.
> > + */
> > + start_offset = 0;
> > + if (cache_flags & SLAB_CFLGS_OBJFREELIST)
> > + start_offset = overload_active;
> > +
> > switch (si->freelist_index_size)
> > {
> > - case 1: ucharptr = (unsigned char *)si->freelist; break;
> > - case 2: ushortptr = (unsigned short *)si->freelist; break;
> > - case 4: uintptr = (unsigned int *)si->freelist; break;
> > + case 1: ucharptr = (unsigned char *)si->freelist + start_offset;
> break;
> > + case 2: ushortptr = (unsigned short *)si->freelist + start_offset;
> break;
> > + case 4: uintptr = (unsigned int *)si->freelist + start_offset;
> break;
> > }
> >
> > - for (i = 0; i < si->c_num; i++) {
> > + for (i = start_offset; i < si->c_num; i++) {
> > switch (si->freelist_index_size)
> > {
> > case 1: objnr = (ulong)*ucharptr++; break;
> > --
> > 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
> >
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Thomas