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Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu'

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* Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> wrote:

> The FPU rewrite removed the dynamic allocations of 'struct fpu'.
> But, this potentially wastes massive amounts of memory (2k per
> task on systems that do not have AVX-512 for instance).
> 
> Instead of having a separate slab, this patch just appends the
> space that we need to the 'task_struct' which we dynamically
> allocate already.  This saves from doing an extra slab allocation
> at fork().  The only real downside here is that we have to stick
> everything and the end of the task_struct.  But, I think the
> BUILD_BUG_ON()s I stuck in there should keep that from being too
> fragile.
> 
> This survives a quick build and boot in a VM.  Does anyone see any
> real downsides to this?

So considering the complexity of the other patch that makes the static allocation, 
I'd massively prefer this patch as it solves the real bug.

It should also work on future hardware a lot better.

This was the dynamic approach I suggested in our discussion of the big FPU code 
rework.

> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c~dynamically-allocate-struct-fpu	2015-07-16 10:50:42.355571648 -0700
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/init.c	2015-07-16 12:02:15.284280976 -0700
> @@ -136,6 +136,45 @@ static void __init fpu__init_system_gene
>  unsigned int xstate_size;
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xstate_size);
>  
> +#define CHECK_MEMBER_AT_END_OF(TYPE, MEMBER)	\
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON((sizeof(TYPE) -			\
> +			offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER) -	\
> +			sizeof(((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER)) > 	\
> +			0)				\
> +
> +/*
> + * We append the 'struct fpu' to the task_struct.
> + */
> +int __weak arch_task_struct_size(void)

This should not be __weak, otherwise we risk getting the generic version:

> --- a/kernel/fork.c~dynamically-allocate-struct-fpu	2015-07-16 10:50:42.357571739 -0700
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c	2015-07-16 11:25:53.873498188 -0700
> @@ -287,15 +287,21 @@ static void set_max_threads(unsigned int
>  	max_threads = clamp_t(u64, threads, MIN_THREADS, MAX_THREADS);
>  }
>  
> +int __weak arch_task_struct_size(void)
> +{
> +	return sizeof(struct task_struct);
> +}
> +

Your system probably worked due to link order preferring the x86 version but I'm 
not sure.

Other than this bug it looks good to me in principle.

Lemme check it on various hardware.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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[RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-07-16 21:20 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-07-16 21:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> - 2015-07-16 23:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-07-17 10:50 +0200
        [PATCH] x86/fpu, sched: Introduce  CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT and use it on x86 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-07-17 11:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-07-17 00:40 +0200
    [PATCH] x86/fpu, bug.h: Move CHECK_MEMBER_AT_END_OF() to a generic  header and use it in generic code Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-07-17 10:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-07-17 10:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-07-17 00:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-07-17 01:00 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, fpu: dynamically allocate 'struct fpu' Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-07-17 10:30 +0200

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