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* slub: Do not cross cacheline boundaries for very small objectsNick Piggin2008-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | SLUB should pack even small objects nicely into cachelines if that is what has been asked for. Use the same algorithm as SLAB for this. The effect of this patch for a system with a cacheline size of 64 bytes is that the 24 byte sized slab caches will now put exactly 2 objects into a cacheline instead of 3 with some overlap into the next cacheline. This reduces the object density in a 4k slab from 170 to 128 objects (same as SLAB). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub statistics: Fix check for DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREESChristoph Lameter2008-03-06
| | | | | | | | The remote frees are in the freelist of the page and not in the percpu freelist. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: fix possible NULL pointer dereferenceCyrill Gorcunov2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | This patch fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kzalloc failed. To be able to return proper error code the function return type is changed to ssize_t (according to callees and sysfs definitions). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Add kmalloc_large_node() to support kmalloc_node fallbackChristoph Lameter2008-03-03
| | | | | | | Slub is missing some NUMA support for large kmallocs. Provide that. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: look up object from the freelist oncePekka J Enberg2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | We only need to look up object from c->page->freelist once in __slab_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Fix up commentsChristoph Lameter2008-03-03
| | | | | | Provide comments and fix up various spelling / style issues. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Rearrange #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG in calculate_sizes()Christoph Lameter2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | Group SLUB_DEBUG code together to reduce the number of #ifdefs. Move some debug checks under the #ifdef. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Remove BUG_ON() from ksize and omit checks for !SLUB_DEBUGChristoph Lameter2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | The BUG_ONs are useless since the pointer derefs will lead to NULL deref errors anyways. Some of the checks are not necessary if no debugging is possible. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Use the objsize from the kmem_cache_cpu structureChristoph Lameter2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | No need to access the kmem_cache structure. We have the same value in kmem_cache_cpu. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Remove useless checks in alloc_debug_processingChristoph Lameter2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | Alloc debug processing is never called with a NULL object pointer. No reason to check for NULL. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Remove objsize check in kmem_cache_flags()Christoph Lameter2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | There is no page->offset anymore and also no associated limit on the number of objects. The page->offset field was removed for 2.6.24. So the check in kmem_cache_flags() is now also obsolete (should have been dropped earlier, somehow a hunk vanished). Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: rename slab_objects to show_slab_objectsChristoph Lameter2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | | The sysfs callback is better named show_slab_objects since it is always called from the xxx_show callbacks. We need the name for other purposes later. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* Revert "unique end pointer" patchChristoph Lameter2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Revert "SLUB: Alternate fast paths using cmpxchg_local"Linus Torvalds2008-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 1f84260c8ce3b1ce26d4c1d6dedc2f33a3a29c0c, which is suspected to be the reason for some very occasional and hard-to-trigger crashes that usually look related to memory allocation (mostly reported in networking, but since that's generally the most common source of shortlived allocations - and allocations in interrupt contexts - that in itself is not a big clue). See for example http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9973 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/278 etc. One promising suspicion for what the root cause of bug is (which also explains why it's so hard to trigger in practice) came from Eric Dumazet: "I wonder how SLUB_FASTPATH is supposed to work, since it is affected by a classical ABA problem of lockless algo. cmpxchg_local(&c->freelist, object, object[c->offset]) can succeed, while an interrupt came (on this cpu), and several allocations were done, and one free was performed at the end of this interruption, so 'object' was recycled. c->freelist can then contain the previous value (object), but object[c->offset] was changed by IRQ. We then put back in freelist an already allocated object." but another reason for the revert is simply that everybody agrees that this code was the main suspect just by virtue of the pattern of oopses. Cc: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* slub: Support 4k kmallocs again to compensate for page allocator slownessChristoph Lameter2008-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we hand off PAGE_SIZEd kmallocs to the page allocator in the mistaken belief that the page allocator can handle these allocations effectively. However, measurements indicate a minimum slowdown by the factor of 8 (and that is only SMP, NUMA is much worse) vs the slub fastpath which causes regressions in tbench. Increase the number of kmalloc caches by one so that we again handle 4k kmallocs directly from slub. 4k page buffering for the page allocator will be performed by slub like done by slab. At some point the page allocator fastpath should be fixed. A lot of the kernel would benefit from a faster ability to allocate a single page. If that is done then the 4k allocs may again be forwarded to the page allocator and this patch could be reverted. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Fallback to kmalloc_large for failing higher order allocsChristoph Lameter2008-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slub already has two ways of allocating an object. One is via its own logic and the other is via the call to kmalloc_large to hand off object allocation to the page allocator. kmalloc_large is typically used for objects >= PAGE_SIZE. We can use that handoff to avoid failing if a higher order kmalloc slab allocation cannot be satisfied by the page allocator. If we reach the out of memory path then simply try a kmalloc_large(). kfree() can already handle the case of an object that was allocated via the page allocator and so this will work just fine (apart from object accounting...). For any kmalloc slab that already requires higher order allocs (which makes it impossible to use the page allocator fastpath!) we just use PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER to get the largest number of objects in one go from the page allocator slowpath. On a 4k platform this patch will lead to the following use of higher order pages for the following kmalloc slabs: 8 ... 1024 order 0 2048 .. 4096 order 3 (4k slab only after the next patch) We may waste some space if fallback occurs on a 2k slab but we are always able to fallback to an order 0 alloc. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Determine gfpflags once and not every time a slab is allocatedChristoph Lameter2008-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we determine the gfp flags to pass to the page allocator each time a slab is being allocated. Determine the bits to be set at the time the slab is created. Store in a new allocflags field and add the flags in allocate_slab(). Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* make slub.c:slab_address() staticAdrian Bunk2008-02-14
| | | | | | | slab_address() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: kmalloc page allocator pass-through cleanupPekka Enberg2008-02-14
| | | | | | | | | This adds a proper function for kmalloc page allocator pass-through. While it simplifies any code that does slab tracing code a lot, I think it's a worthwhile cleanup in itself. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* SLUB: fix checkpatch warningsIngo Molnar2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fix checkpatch --file mm/slub.c errors and warnings. $ q-code-quality-compare errors lines of code errors/KLOC mm/slub.c [before] 22 4204 5.2 mm/slub.c [after] 0 4210 0 no code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 22195 8634 136 30965 78f5 slub.o.before 22195 8634 136 30965 78f5 slub.o.after md5: 93cdfbec2d6450622163c590e1064358 slub.o.before.asm 93cdfbec2d6450622163c590e1064358 slub.o.after.asm [clameter: rediffed against Pekka's cleanup patch, omitted moves of the name of a function to the start of line] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* Use non atomic unlockNick Piggin2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | Slub can use the non-atomic version to unlock because other flags will not get modified with the lock held. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Support for performance statisticsChristoph Lameter2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior but at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in SLUB's per cpu data structure. The per cpu structure may be extended by the statistics to grow larger than one cacheline which will increase the cache footprint of SLUB. There is a compile option to enable/disable the inclusion of the runtime statistics and its off by default. The slabinfo tool is enhanced to support these statistics via two options: -D Switches the line of information displayed for a slab from size mode to activity mode. -A Sorts the slabs displayed by activity. This allows the display of the slabs most important to the performance of a certain load. -r Report option will report detailed statistics on Example (tbench load): slabinfo -AD ->Shows the most active slabs Name Objects Alloc Free %Fast skbuff_fclone_cache 33 111953835 111953835 99 99 :0000192 2666 5283688 5281047 99 99 :0001024 849 5247230 5246389 83 83 vm_area_struct 1349 119642 118355 91 22 :0004096 15 66753 66751 98 98 :0000064 2067 25297 23383 98 78 dentry 10259 28635 18464 91 45 :0000080 11004 18950 8089 98 98 :0000096 1703 12358 10784 99 98 :0000128 762 10582 9875 94 18 :0000512 184 9807 9647 95 81 :0002048 479 9669 9195 83 65 anon_vma 777 9461 9002 99 71 kmalloc-8 6492 9981 5624 99 97 :0000768 258 7174 6931 58 15 So the skbuff_fclone_cache is of highest importance for the tbench load. Pretty high load on the 192 sized slab. Look for the aliases slabinfo -a | grep 000192 :0000192 <- xfs_btree_cur filp kmalloc-192 uid_cache tw_sock_TCP request_sock_TCPv6 tw_sock_TCPv6 skbuff_head_cache xfs_ili Likely skbuff_head_cache. Looking into the statistics of the skbuff_fclone_cache is possible through slabinfo skbuff_fclone_cache ->-r option implied if cache name is mentioned .... Usual output ... Slab Perf Counter Alloc Free %Al %Fr -------------------------------------------------- Fastpath 111953360 111946981 99 99 Slowpath 1044 7423 0 0 Page Alloc 272 264 0 0 Add partial 25 325 0 0 Remove partial 86 264 0 0 RemoteObj/SlabFrozen 350 4832 0 0 Total 111954404 111954404 Flushes 49 Refill 0 Deactivate Full=325(92%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=24(6%) ToTail=1(0%) Looks good because the fastpath is overwhelmingly taken. skbuff_head_cache: Slab Perf Counter Alloc Free %Al %Fr -------------------------------------------------- Fastpath 5297262 5259882 99 99 Slowpath 4477 39586 0 0 Page Alloc 937 824 0 0 Add partial 0 2515 0 0 Remove partial 1691 824 0 0 RemoteObj/SlabFrozen 2621 9684 0 0 Total 5301739 5299468 Deactivate Full=2620(100%) Empty=0(0%) ToHead=0(0%) ToTail=0(0%) Descriptions of the output: Total: The total number of allocation and frees that occurred for a slab Fastpath: The number of allocations/frees that used the fastpath. Slowpath: Other allocations Page Alloc: Number of calls to the page allocator as a result of slowpath processing Add Partial: Number of slabs added to the partial list through free or alloc (occurs during cpuslab flushes) Remove Partial: Number of slabs removed from the partial list as a result of allocations retrieving a partial slab or by a free freeing the last object of a slab. RemoteObj/Froz: How many times were remotely freed object encountered when a slab was about to be deactivated. Frozen: How many times was free able to skip list processing because the slab was in use as the cpuslab of another processor. Flushes: Number of times the cpuslab was flushed on request (kmem_cache_shrink, may result from races in __slab_alloc) Refill: Number of times we were able to refill the cpuslab from remotely freed objects for the same slab. Deactivate: Statistics how slabs were deactivated. Shows how they were put onto the partial list. In general fastpath is very good. Slowpath without partial list processing is also desirable. Any touching of partial list uses node specific locks which may potentially cause list lock contention. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* SLUB: Alternate fast paths using cmpxchg_localChristoph Lameter2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide an alternate implementation of the SLUB fast paths for alloc and free using cmpxchg_local. The cmpxchg_local fast path is selected for arches that have CONFIG_FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL set. An arch should only set CONFIG_FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL if the cmpxchg_local is faster than an interrupt enable/disable sequence. This is known to be true for both x86 platforms so set FAST_CMPXCHG_LOCAL for both arches. Currently another requirement for the fastpath is that the kernel is compiled without preemption. The restriction will go away with the introduction of a new per cpu allocator and new per cpu operations. The advantages of a cmpxchg_local based fast path are: 1. Potentially lower cycle count (30%-60% faster) 2. There is no need to disable and enable interrupts on the fast path. Currently interrupts have to be disabled and enabled on every slab operation. This is likely avoiding a significant percentage of interrupt off / on sequences in the kernel. 3. The disposal of freed slabs can occur with interrupts enabled. The alternate path is realized using #ifdef's. Several attempts to do the same with macros and inline functions resulted in a mess (in particular due to the strange way that local_interrupt_save() handles its argument and due to the need to define macros/functions that sometimes disable interrupts and sometimes do something else). [clameter: Stripped preempt bits and disabled fastpath if preempt is enabled] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Use unique end pointer for each slab page.Christoph Lameter2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We use a NULL pointer on freelists to signal that there are no more objects. However the NULL pointers of all slabs match in contrast to the pointers to the real objects which are in different ranges for different slab pages. Change the end pointer to be a pointer to the first object and set bit 0. Every slab will then have a different end pointer. This is necessary to ensure that end markers can be matched to the source slab during cmpxchg_local. Bring back the use of the mapping field by SLUB since we would otherwise have to call a relatively expensive function page_address() in __slab_alloc(). Use of the mapping field allows avoiding a call to page_address() in various other functions as well. There is no need to change the page_mapping() function since bit 0 is set on the mapping as also for anonymous pages. page_mapping(slab_page) will therefore still return NULL although the mapping field is overloaded. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Deal with annoying gcc warning on kfree()Christoph Lameter2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | gcc 4.2 spits out an annoying warning if one casts a const void * pointer to a void * pointer. No warning is generated if the conversion is done through an assignment. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* SLUB: Do not upset lockdeproot2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | inconsistent {softirq-on-W} -> {in-softirq-W} usage. swapper/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE0:SE0] takes: (&n->list_lock){-+..}, at: [<ffffffff802935c1>] add_partial+0x31/0xa0 {softirq-on-W} state was registered at: [<ffffffff80259fb8>] __lock_acquire+0x3e8/0x1140 [<ffffffff80259838>] debug_check_no_locks_freed+0x188/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8025ad65>] lock_acquire+0x55/0x70 [<ffffffff802935c1>] add_partial+0x31/0xa0 [<ffffffff805c76de>] _spin_lock+0x1e/0x30 [<ffffffff802935c1>] add_partial+0x31/0xa0 [<ffffffff80296f9c>] kmem_cache_open+0x1cc/0x330 [<ffffffff805c7984>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x30 [<ffffffff802974f4>] create_kmalloc_cache+0x64/0xf0 [<ffffffff80295640>] init_alloc_cpu_cpu+0x70/0x90 [<ffffffff8080ada5>] kmem_cache_init+0x65/0x1d0 [<ffffffff807f1b4e>] start_kernel+0x23e/0x350 [<ffffffff807f112d>] _sinittext+0x12d/0x140 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff This change isn't really necessary for correctness, but it prevents lockdep from getting upset and then disabling itself. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* SLUB: Fix coding style violationsPekka Enberg2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | This fixes most of the obvious coding style violations in mm/slub.c as reported by checkpatch. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* Add parameter to add_partial to avoid having two functionsChristoph Lameter2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a parameter to add_partial instead of having separate functions. The parameter allows a more detailed control of where the slab pages is placed in the partial queues. If we put slabs back to the front then they are likely immediately used for allocations. If they are put at the end then we can maximize the time that the partial slabs spent without being subject to allocations. When deactivating slab we can put the slabs that had remote objects freed (we can see that because objects were put on the freelist that requires locks) to them at the end of the list so that the cachelines of remote processors can cool down. Slabs that had objects from the local cpu freed to them (objects exist in the lockless freelist) are put in the front of the list to be reused ASAP in order to exploit the cache hot state of the local cpu. Patch seems to slightly improve tbench speed (1-2%). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: rename defrag to remote_node_defrag_ratioChristoph Lameter2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | The NUMA defrag works by allocating objects from partial slabs on remote nodes. Rename it to remote_node_defrag_ratio to be clear about this. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Move count_partial before kmem_cache_shrinkChristoph Lameter2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | Move the counting function for objects in partial slabs so that it is placed before kmem_cache_shrink. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Fix sysfs refcountingChristoph Lameter2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | If CONFIG_SYSFS is set then free the kmem_cache structure when sysfs tells us its okay. Otherwise there is the danger (as pointed out by Al Viro) that sysfs thinks the kobject still exists after kmem_cache_destroy() removed it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
* slub: fix shadowed variable sparse warningsHarvey Harrison2008-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce 'len' at outer level: mm/slub.c:3406:26: warning: symbol 'n' shadows an earlier one mm/slub.c:3393:6: originally declared here No need to declare new node: mm/slub.c:3501:7: warning: symbol 'node' shadows an earlier one mm/slub.c:3491:6: originally declared here No need to declare new x: mm/slub.c:3513:9: warning: symbol 'x' shadows an earlier one mm/slub.c:3492:6: originally declared here Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* Kobject: convert mm/slub.c to use kobject_init/add_ng()Greg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the logic in doing so. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: convert kernel_kset to be a kobjectGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | kernel_kset does not need to be a kset, but a much simpler kobject now that we have kobj_attributes. We also rename kernel_kset to kernel_kobj to catch all users of this symbol with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kset: move /sys/slab to /sys/kernel/slabGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | /sys/kernel is where these things should go. Also updated the documentation and tool that used this directory. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kset: convert slub to use kset_createGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset. We should set this explicitly every time for each kset. This change is needed so that we can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has. This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers. Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Unify /proc/slabinfo configurationLinus Torvalds2008-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | Both SLUB and SLAB really did almost exactly the same thing for /proc/slabinfo setup, using duplicate code and per-allocator #ifdef's. This just creates a common CONFIG_SLABINFO that is enabled by both SLUB and SLAB, and shares all the setup code. Maybe SLOB will want this some day too. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* slub: provide /proc/slabinfoPekka J Enberg2008-01-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a read-only /proc/slabinfo file on SLUB, that makes slabtop work. [ mingo@elte.hu: build fix. ] Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Improve hackbench speedChristoph Lameter2007-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | Increase the mininum number of partial slabs to keep around and put partial slabs to the end of the partial queue so that they can add more objects. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: remove useless masking of GFP_ZEROChristoph Lameter2007-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove a recently added useless masking of GFP_ZERO. GFP_ZERO is already masked out in new_slab() (See how it calls allocate_slab). No need to do it twice. This reverts the SLUB parts of 7fd272550bd43cc1d7289ef0ab2fa50de137e767. Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Avoid double memclear() in SLOB/SLUBLinus Torvalds2007-12-09
| | | | | | | | | | Both slob and slub react to __GFP_ZERO by clearing the allocation, which means that passing the GFP_ZERO bit down to the page allocator is just wasteful and pointless. Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB's ksize() fails for size > 2048Vegard Nossum2007-12-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | I can't pass memory allocated by kmalloc() to ksize() if it is allocated by SLUB allocator and size is larger than (I guess) PAGE_SIZE / 2. The error of ksize() seems to be that it does not check if the allocation was made by SLUB or the page allocator. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: killed the unused "end" variableDenis Cheng2007-11-12
| | | | | | | Since the macro "for_each_object" introduced, the "end" variable becomes unused anymore. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: Fix memory leak by not reusing cpu_slabChristoph Lameter2007-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the memory leak that may occur when we attempt to reuse a cpu_slab that was allocated while we reenabled interrupts in order to be able to grow a slab cache. The per cpu freelist may contain objects and in that situation we may overwrite the per cpu freelist pointer loosing objects. This only occurs if we find that the concurrently allocated slab fits our allocation needs. If we simply always deactivate the slab then the freelist will be properly reintegrated and the memory leak will go away. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* missing atomic_read_long() in slub.cAl Viro2007-10-29
| | | | | | | nr_slabs is atomic_long_t, not atomic_t Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memory hotplug: make kmem_cache_node for SLUB on memory online avoid panicYasunori Goto2007-10-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a panic due to access NULL pointer of kmem_cache_node at discard_slab() after memory online. When memory online is called, kmem_cache_nodes are created for all SLUBs for new node whose memory are available. slab_mem_going_online_callback() is called to make kmem_cache_node() in callback of memory online event. If it (or other callbacks) fails, then slab_mem_offline_callback() is called for rollback. In memory offline, slab_mem_going_offline_callback() is called to shrink all slub cache, then slab_mem_offline_callback() is called later. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: locking fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parametersChristoph Lameter2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer. Convert ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags) to ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object) throughout the kernel [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* SLUB: simplify IRQ off handlingChristoph Lameter2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | Move irq handling out of new slab into __slab_alloc. That is useful for Mathieu's cmpxchg_local patchset and also allows us to remove the crude local_irq_off in early_kmem_cache_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* slub: list_locations() can use GFP_TEMPORARYAndrew Morton2007-10-16
| | | | | | | | | It's a short-lived allocation. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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