kernel/linux.git/include/linux/slab.h, branch v3.13-rc5

slab.h: remove duplicate kmalloc declaration and fix kernel-doc warnings

2013-11-24T19:01:16+00:00

Fix kernel-doc warning for duplicate definition of 'kmalloc': Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.xml:9483: element refentry: validity error : ID API-kmalloc already defined Also combine the kernel-doc info from the 2 kmalloc definitions into one block and remove the "see kcalloc" comment since kmalloc now contains the @flags info. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux

2013-11-22T16:10:34+00:00

Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg: "The patches from Joonsoo Kim switch mm/slab.c to use 'struct page' for slab internals similar to mm/slub.c. This reduces memory usage and improves performance: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/16/155 Rest of the changes are bug fixes from various people" * 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (21 commits) mm, slub: fix the typo in mm/slub.c mm, slub: fix the typo in include/linux/slub_def.h slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags slab: replace non-existing 'struct freelist *' with 'void *' slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning slub: proper kmemleak tracking if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG disabled slab: rename slab_bufctl to slab_freelist slab: remove useless statement for checking pfmemalloc slab: use struct page for slab management slab: replace free and inuse in struct slab with newly introduced active slab: remove SLAB_LIMIT slab: remove kmem_bufctl_t slab: change the management method of free objects of the slab slab: use __GFP_COMP flag for allocating slab pages slab: use well-defined macro, virt_to_slab() slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU for RCU free slab: remove cachep in struct slab_rcu slab: remove nodeid in struct slab slab: remove colouroff in struct slab slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() to struct page ...

slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU for RCU free

2013-10-24T17:17:31+00:00

With build-time size checking, we can overload the RCU head over the LRU of struct page to free pages of a slab in rcu context. This really help to implement to overload the struct slab over the struct page and this eventually reduce memory usage and cache footprint of the SLAB. Acked-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slab: Use correct GFP_DMA constant

2013-09-04T20:11:42+00:00

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, kbuild test robot wrote: > >> include/linux/slab.h:433:53: sparse: restricted gfp_t degrades to integer > 429 static __always_inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) > 430 { > 431 #ifndef CONFIG_SLOB > 432 if (__builtin_constant_p(size) && > > 433 size <= KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE && !(flags & SLAB_CACHE_DMA)) { > 434 int i = kmalloc_index(size); > 435 flags is of type gfp_t and not a slab internal flag. Therefore use GFP_DMA. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common code

2013-09-04T17:51:33+00:00

The kmalloc* functions of all slab allcoators are similar now so lets move them into slab.h. This requires some function naming changes in slob. As a results of this patch there is a common set of functions for all allocators. Also means that kmalloc_large() is now available in general to perform large order allocations that go directly via the page allocator. kmalloc_large() can be substituted if kmalloc() throws warnings because of too large allocations. kmalloc_large() has exactly the same semantics as kmalloc but can only used for allocations > PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentation

2013-07-07T16:02:59+00:00

At the moment, kmalloc() isn't even listed in the kernel API documentation (DocBook/kernel-api.html after running "make htmldocs"). Another issue is that the documentation for kmalloc_node() refers to kcalloc()'s documentation to describe its 'flags' parameter, while kcalloc() refered to kmalloc()'s documentation, which doesn't exist! This patch is a proposed fix for this. It also removes the documentation for kmalloc() in include/linux/slob_def.h which isn't included to generate the documentation anyway. This way, kmalloc() is described in only one place. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.h

2013-06-18T15:34:43+00:00

Make the SLOB specific stuff harmonize more with the way the other allocators do it. Create the typical kmalloc constants for that purpose. SLOB does not support it but the constants help us avoid #ifdefs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slab: Handle ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN correctly

2013-02-06T18:32:13+00:00

James Hogan hit boot problems in next-20130204 on Meta: META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] kobject (4fc03980): tried to init an initialized object, something is seriously wrong. META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] Call trace: META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<4000888c>] _show_stack+0x68/0x7c META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<400088b4>] _dump_stack+0x14/0x28 META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40103794>] _kobject_init+0x58/0x9c META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40103810>] _kobject_create+0x38/0x64 META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40103eac>] _kobject_create_and_add+0x14/0x8c META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40190ac4>] _mnt_init+0xd8/0x220 META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40190508>] _vfs_caches_init+0xb0/0x160 META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<401851f4>] _start_kernel+0x274/0x340 META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40188424>] _metag_start_kernel+0x58/0x6c META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] [<40000044>] __start+0x44/0x48 META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] devtmpfs: initialized META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] L2 Cache: Not present META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] BUG: failure at fs/sysfs/dir.c:736/sysfs_read_ns_type()! META213-Thread0 DSP [LogF] Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG! META213-Thread0 DSP [Thread Exit] Thread has exited - return code = 4294967295 And bisected the problem to commit 95a05b4 ("slab: Common constants for kmalloc boundaries"). As it turns out, a fixed KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW does not work for arches with higher alignment requirements. Determine KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead. Reported-and-tested-by: James Hogan Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slab: Common definition for the array of kmalloc caches

2013-02-01T10:32:07+00:00

Have a common definition fo the kmalloc cache arrays in SLAB and SLUB Acked-by: Glauber Costa Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slab: Common constants for kmalloc boundaries

2013-02-01T10:32:07+00:00

Standardize the constants that describe the smallest and largest object kept in the kmalloc arrays for SLAB and SLUB. Differentiate between the maximum size for which a slab cache is used (KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE) and the maximum allocatable size (KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE, KMALLOC_MAX_ORDER). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg