Revert "unique end pointer" patch

This only made sense for the alternate fastpath which was reverted last week.

Mathieu is working on a new version that addresses the fastpath issues but that
new code first needs to go through mm and it is not clear if we need the
unique end pointers with his new scheme.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 51 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index bfee0bd1d435..34023c65d466 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -64,10 +64,7 @@ struct page {
 #if NR_CPUS >= CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
             spinlock_t ptl;
 #endif
-            struct {
-                   struct kmem_cache *slab;     /* SLUB: Pointer to slab */
-                   void *end;                   /* SLUB: end marker */
-            };
+            struct kmem_cache *slab;    /* SLUB: Pointer to slab */
             struct page *first_page;    /* Compound tail pages */
         };
         union {
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 74c65af0a54f..a873953e5a11 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -291,32 +291,15 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache_cpu *get_cpu_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, int cpu)
 #endif
 }
 
-/*
- * The end pointer in a slab is special. It points to the first object in the
- * slab but has bit 0 set to mark it.
- *
- * Note that SLUB relies on page_mapping returning NULL for pages with bit 0
- * in the mapping set.
- */
-static inline int is_end(void *addr)
-{
-        return (unsigned long)addr & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON;
-}
-
-static void *slab_address(struct page *page)
-{
-        return page->end - PAGE_MAPPING_ANON;
-}
-
 static inline int check_valid_pointer(struct kmem_cache *s,
                                 struct page *page, const void *object)
 {
         void *base;
 
-        if (object == page->end)
+        if (!object)
                 return 1;
 
-        base = slab_address(page);
+        base = page_address(page);
         if (object < base || object >= base + s->objects * s->size ||
                 (object - base) % s->size) {
                 return 0;
@@ -349,8 +332,7 @@ static inline void set_freepointer(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, void *fp)
 
 /* Scan freelist */
 #define for_each_free_object(__p, __s, __free) \
-        for (__p = (__free); (__p) != page->end; __p = get_freepointer((__s),\
-                __p))
+        for (__p = (__free); __p; __p = get_freepointer((__s), __p))
 
 /* Determine object index from a given position */
 static inline int slab_index(void *p, struct kmem_cache *s, void *addr)
@@ -502,7 +484,7 @@ static void slab_fix(struct kmem_cache *s, char *fmt, ...)
 static void print_trailer(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, u8 *p)
 {
         unsigned int off;       /* Offset of last byte */
-        u8 *addr = slab_address(page);
+        u8 *addr = page_address(page);
 
         print_tracking(s, p);
 
@@ -680,7 +662,7 @@ static int slab_pad_check(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
         if (!(s->flags & SLAB_POISON))
                 return 1;
 
-        start = slab_address(page);
+        start = page_address(page);
         end = start + (PAGE_SIZE << s->order);
         length = s->objects * s->size;
         remainder = end - (start + length);
@@ -748,7 +730,7 @@ static int check_object(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
                  * of the free objects in this slab. May cause
                  * another error because the object count is now wrong.
                  */
-                set_freepointer(s, p, page->end);
+                set_freepointer(s, p, NULL);
                 return 0;
         }
         return 1;
@@ -782,18 +764,18 @@ static int on_freelist(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, void *search)
         void *fp = page->freelist;
         void *object = NULL;
 
-        while (fp != page->end && nr <= s->objects) {
+        while (fp && nr <= s->objects) {
                 if (fp == search)
                         return 1;
                 if (!check_valid_pointer(s, page, fp)) {
                         if (object) {
                                 object_err(s, page, object,
                                         "Freechain corrupt");
-                                set_freepointer(s, object, page->end);
+                                set_freepointer(s, object, NULL);
                                 break;
                         } else {
                                 slab_err(s, page, "Freepointer corrupt");
-                                page->freelist = page->end;
+                                page->freelist = NULL;
                                 page->inuse = s->objects;
                                 slab_fix(s, "Freelist cleared");
                                 return 0;
@@ -899,7 +881,7 @@ bad:
                  */
                 slab_fix(s, "Marking all objects used");
                 page->inuse = s->objects;
-                page->freelist = page->end;
+                page->freelist = NULL;
         }
         return 0;
 }
@@ -939,7 +921,7 @@ static int free_debug_processing(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
         }
 
         /* Special debug activities for freeing objects */
-        if (!SlabFrozen(page) && page->freelist == page->end)
+        if (!SlabFrozen(page) && !page->freelist)
                 remove_full(s, page);
         if (s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER)
                 set_track(s, object, TRACK_FREE, addr);
@@ -1124,7 +1106,6 @@ static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
                 SetSlabDebug(page);
 
         start = page_address(page);
-        page->end = start + 1;
 
         if (unlikely(s->flags & SLAB_POISON))
                 memset(start, POISON_INUSE, PAGE_SIZE << s->order);
@@ -1136,7 +1117,7 @@ static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
                 last = p;
         }
         setup_object(s, page, last);
-        set_freepointer(s, last, page->end);
+        set_freepointer(s, last, NULL);
 
         page->freelist = start;
         page->inuse = 0;
@@ -1152,7 +1133,7 @@ static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
                 void *p;
 
                 slab_pad_check(s, page);
-                for_each_object(p, s, slab_address(page))
+                for_each_object(p, s, page_address(page))
                         check_object(s, page, p, 0);
                 ClearSlabDebug(page);
         }
@@ -1162,7 +1143,6 @@ static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
                 NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE : NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE,
                 -pages);
 
-        page->mapping = NULL;
         __free_pages(page, s->order);
 }
 
@@ -1366,7 +1346,7 @@ static void unfreeze_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int tail)
         ClearSlabFrozen(page);
         if (page->inuse) {