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authorMarco Elver <elver@google.com>2022-03-22 14:48:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-22 15:57:11 -0700
commit737b6a10ac19e41877aa1911bf6b361a72a88ad9 (patch)
treea8e23366c9b1d6e3a5fa2220505fc175f2862a3b /mm/kfence
parent3cb1c9620eeeb67c614c0732a35861b0b1efdc53 (diff)
downloadlinux-737b6a10ac19e41877aa1911bf6b361a72a88ad9.tar.gz
kfence: allow use of a deferrable timer
Allow the use of a deferrable timer, which does not force CPU wake-ups
when the system is idle.  A consequence is that the sample interval
becomes very unpredictable, to the point that it is not guaranteed that
the KFENCE KUnit test still passes.

Nevertheless, on power-constrained systems this may be preferable, so
let's give the user the option should they accept the above trade-off.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220308141415.3168078-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/kfence')
-rw-r--r--mm/kfence/core.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
index f126b53b9b85..2f9fdfde1941 100644
--- a/mm/kfence/core.c
+++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ module_param_cb(sample_interval, &sample_interval_param_ops, &kfence_sample_inte
 static unsigned long kfence_skip_covered_thresh __read_mostly = 75;
 module_param_named(skip_covered_thresh, kfence_skip_covered_thresh, ulong, 0644);
 
+/* If true, use a deferrable timer. */
+static bool kfence_deferrable __read_mostly = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE_DEFERRABLE);
+module_param_named(deferrable, kfence_deferrable, bool, 0444);
+
 /* The pool of pages used for guard pages and objects. */
 char *__kfence_pool __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfence_pool); /* Export for test modules. */
@@ -740,6 +744,8 @@ late_initcall(kfence_debugfs_init);
 
 /* === Allocation Gate Timer ================================================ */
 
+static struct delayed_work kfence_timer;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS
 /* Wait queue to wake up allocation-gate timer task. */
 static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(allocation_wait);
@@ -762,7 +768,6 @@ static DEFINE_IRQ_WORK(wake_up_kfence_timer_work, wake_up_kfence_timer);
  * avoids IPIs, at the cost of not immediately capturing allocations if the
  * instructions remain cached.
  */
-static struct delayed_work kfence_timer;
 static void toggle_allocation_gate(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	if (!READ_ONCE(kfence_enabled))
@@ -790,7 +795,6 @@ static void toggle_allocation_gate(struct work_struct *work)
 	queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &kfence_timer,
 			   msecs_to_jiffies(kfence_sample_interval));
 }
-static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(kfence_timer, toggle_allocation_gate);
 
 /* === Public interface ===================================================== */
 
@@ -809,8 +813,15 @@ static void kfence_init_enable(void)
 {
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS))
 		static_branch_enable(&kfence_allocation_key);
+
+	if (kfence_deferrable)
+		INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(&kfence_timer, toggle_allocation_gate);
+	else
+		INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&kfence_timer, toggle_allocation_gate);
+
 	WRITE_ONCE(kfence_enabled, true);
 	queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &kfence_timer, 0);
+
 	pr_info("initialized - using %lu bytes for %d objects at 0x%p-0x%p\n", KFENCE_POOL_SIZE,
 		CONFIG_KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS, (void *)__kfence_pool,
 		(void *)(__kfence_pool + KFENCE_POOL_SIZE));