[PATCH] Manage jbd allocations from its own slabs

JBD currently allocates commit and frozen buffers from slabs.  With
CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, its possible for an allocation to cross the page
boundary causing IO problems.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200127

So, instead of allocating these from regular slabs - manage allocation from
its own slabs and disable slab debug for these slabs.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/jbd.h b/include/linux/jbd.h
index 20eb34403d0c..a04c154c5207 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd.h
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ extern int journal_enable_debug;
 #endif
 
 extern void * __jbd_kmalloc (const char *where, size_t size, gfp_t flags, int retry);
+extern void * jbd_slab_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
+extern void jbd_slab_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
+
 #define jbd_kmalloc(size, flags) \
         __jbd_kmalloc(__FUNCTION__, (size), (flags), journal_oom_retry)
 #define jbd_rep_kmalloc(size, flags) \