lib/stackdepot: print disabled message only if truly disabled
Patch series "stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces", v4. Currently, the stack depot grows indefinitely until it reaches its capacity. Once that happens, the stack depot stops saving new stack traces. This creates a problem for using the stack depot for in-field testing and in production. For such uses, an ideal stack trace storage should: 1. Allow saving fresh stack traces on systems with a large uptime while limiting the amount of memory used to store the traces; 2. Have a low performance impact. Implementing #1 in the stack depot is impossible with the current keep-forever approach. This series targets to address that. Issue #2 is left to be addressed in a future series. This series changes the stack depot implementation to allow evicting unneeded stack traces from the stack depot. The users of the stack depot can do that via new stack_depot_save_flags(STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_GET) and stack_depot_put APIs. Internal changes to the stack depot code include: 1. Storing stack traces in fixed-frame-sized slots (vs precisely-sized slots in the current implementation); the slot size is controlled via CONFIG_STACKDEPOT_MAX_FRAMES (default: 64 frames); 2. Keeping available slots in a freelist (vs keeping an offset to the next free slot); 3. Using a read/write lock for synchronization (vs a lock-free approach combined with a spinlock). This series also integrates the eviction functionality into KASAN: the tag-based modes evict stack traces when the corresponding entry leaves the stack ring, and Generic KASAN evicts stack traces for objects once those leave the quarantine. With KASAN, despite wasting some space on rounding up the size of each stack record, the total memory consumed by stack depot gets saturated due to the eviction of irrelevant stack traces from the stack depot. With the tag-based KASAN modes, the average total amount of memory used for stack traces becomes ~0.5 MB (with the current default stack ring size of 32k entries and the default CONFIG_STACKDEPOT_MAX_FRAMES of 64). With Generic KASAN, the stack traces take up ~1 MB per 1 GB of RAM (as the quarantine's size depends on the amount of RAM). However, with KMSAN, the stack depot ends up using ~4x more memory per a stack trace than before. Thus, for KMSAN, the stack depot capacity is increased accordingly. KMSAN uses a lot of RAM for shadow memory anyway, so the increased stack depot memory usage will not make a significant difference. Other users of the stack depot do not save stack traces as often as KASAN and KMSAN. Thus, the increased memory usage is taken as an acceptable trade-off. In the future, these other users can take advantage of the eviction API to limit the memory waste. There is no measurable boot time performance impact of these changes for KASAN on x86-64. I haven't done any tests for arm64 modes (the stack depot without performance optimizations is not suitable for intended use of those anyway), but I expect a similar result. Obtaining and copying stack trace frames when saving them into stack depot is what takes the most time. This series does not yet provide a way to configure the maximum size of the stack depot externally (e.g. via a command-line parameter). This will be added in a separate series, possibly together with the performance improvement changes. This patch (of 22): Currently, if stack_depot_disable=off is passed to the kernel command-line after stack_depot_disable=on, stack depot prints a message that it is disabled, while it is actually enabled. Fix this by moving printing the disabled message to stack_depot_early_init. Place it before the __stack_depot_early_init_requested check, so that the message is printed even if early stack depot init has not been requested. Also drop the stack_table = NULL assignment from disable_stack_depot, as stack_table is NULL by default. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1700502145.git.andreyknvl@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/73a25c5fff29f3357cd7a9330e85e09bc8da2cbe.1700502145.git.andreyknvl@google.com Fixes: e1fdc403 ("lib: stackdepot: add support to disable stack depot") Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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