From 086eb1fee401d2bd4f9d65df92ace8b41cba4329 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:32:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] at a final spacing class of 1 slot size classes --- README.md | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------- calculate_waste.py | 6 ++++-- h_malloc.c | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c2d9aad..40a5c16 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -407,17 +407,18 @@ The slab allocation size classes end at 16384 since that's the final size for bytes on the target platforms. This is the minimum set of small size classes required to avoid substantial waste from rounding. -The `CONFIG_EXTENDED_SIZE_CLASSES` option extends the size classes up to 65536, -with a final spacing class of 16384. This offers improved performance compared -to the minimum set of size classes. The security story is complicated, since -the slab allocation has both advantages like size class isolation completely -avoiding reuse of any of the address space for any other size classes or other -data. It also has disadvantages like caching a small number of empty slabs and -deterministic guard sizes. The cache will be configurable in the future, making -it possible to disable slab caching for the largest slab allocation sizes, to -force unmapping them immediately and putting them in the slab quarantine, which -eliminates most of the security disadvantage at the expense of also giving up -most of the performance advantage, but while retaining the isolation. +The `CONFIG_EXTENDED_SIZE_CLASSES` option extends the size classes up to +131072, with a final spacing class of 16384. This offers improved performance +compared to the minimum set of size classes. The security story is complicated, +since the slab allocation has both advantages like size class isolation +completely avoiding reuse of any of the address space for any other size +classes or other data. It also has disadvantages like caching a small number of +empty slabs and deterministic guard sizes. The cache will be configurable in +the future, making it possible to disable slab caching for the largest slab +allocation sizes, to force unmapping them immediately and putting them in the +slab quarantine, which eliminates most of the security disadvantage at the +expense of also giving up most of the performance advantage, but while +retaining the isolation. | size class | worst case internal fragmentation | slab slots | slab size | internal fragmentation for slabs | | - | - | - | - | - | @@ -425,10 +426,14 @@ most of the performance advantage, but while retaining the isolation. | 24576 | 16.66259765625% | 2 | 49152 | 0.0% | | 28672 | 14.2822265625% | 2 | 57344 | 0.0% | | 32768 | 12.4969482421875% | 2 | 65536 | 0.0% | -| 40960 | 19.99755859375% | 2 | 81920 | 0.0% | -| 49152 | 16.664632161458343% | 2 | 98304 | 0.0% | -| 57344 | 14.283970424107139% | 2 | 114688 | 0.0% | -| 65536 | 12.49847412109375% | 2 | 131072 | 0.0% | +| 40960 | 19.99755859375% | 1 | 40960 | 0.0% | +| 49152 | 16.664632161458343% | 1 | 49152 | 0.0% | +| 57344 | 14.283970424107139% | 1 | 57344 | 0.0% | +| 65536 | 12.49847412109375% | 1 | 65536 | 0.0% | +| 81920 | 19.998779296875% | 1 | 81920 | 0.0% | +| 98304 | 16.6656494140625% | 1 | 98304 | 0.0% | +| 114688 | 14.284842354910708% | 1 | 114688 | 0.0% | +| 131072 | 12.499237060546875% | 1 | 131072 | 0.0% | The `CONFIG_LARGE_SIZE_CLASSES` option controls whether large allocations use the same size class scheme providing 4 size classes for every doubling of size. diff --git a/calculate_waste.py b/calculate_waste.py index b2f5ec6..ced000a 100755 --- a/calculate_waste.py +++ b/calculate_waste.py @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ size_classes = [ 5120, 6144, 7168, 8192, 10240, 12288, 14336, 16384, 20480, 24576, 28672, 32768, - 40960, 49152, 57344, 65536 + 40960, 49152, 57344, 65536, + 81920, 98304, 114688, 131072, ] size_class_slots = [ @@ -25,7 +26,8 @@ size_class_slots = [ 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 5, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, - 2, 2, 2, 2 + 1, 1, 1, 1, + 1, 1, 1, 1, ] fragmentation = [100 - 1 / 16 * 100] diff --git a/h_malloc.c b/h_malloc.c index 120c1bf..6a93fe0 100644 --- a/h_malloc.c +++ b/h_malloc.c @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ static const u32 size_classes[] = { #if CONFIG_EXTENDED_SIZE_CLASSES /* 4096 */ 20480, 24576, 28672, 32768, /* 8192 */ 40960, 49152, 57344, 65536, + /* 16384 */ 81920, 98304, 114688, 131072, #endif }; @@ -135,6 +136,7 @@ static const u16 size_class_slots[] = { #if CONFIG_EXTENDED_SIZE_CLASSES /* 4096 */ 2, 2, 2, 2, /* 8192 */ 1, 1, 1, 1, + /* 16384 */ 1, 1, 1, 1, #endif }; @@ -152,6 +154,7 @@ static const char *const size_class_labels[] = { #if CONFIG_EXTENDED_SIZE_CLASSES /* 4096 */ "malloc 20480", "malloc 24576", "malloc 28672", "malloc 32768", /* 8192 */ "malloc 40960", "malloc 49152", "malloc 57344", "malloc 65536", + /* 16384 */ "malloc 81920", "malloc 98304", "malloc 114688", "malloc 131072", #endif };