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authorNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>2007-05-17 09:10:49 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-17 16:23:02 +0400
commitafc0cedbe9138e3e8b38bfa1e4dfd01a2c537d62 (patch)
tree0df03f95645ef76a387dd541da062b682319c921 /mm/slob.c
parentb2cd64153b94473f6bd82448a68b8e8c041676ea (diff)
downloadlinux-afc0cedbe9138e3e8b38bfa1e4dfd01a2c537d62.tar.xz
slob: implement RCU freeing
The SLOB allocator should implement SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU correctly, because even on UP, RCU freeing semantics are not equivalent to simply freeing immediately. This also allows SLOB to be used on SMP. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slob.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slob.c52
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index c6933bc19bcd..57bb72ed0d46 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/timer.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
struct slob_block {
int units;
@@ -53,6 +54,16 @@ struct bigblock {
};
typedef struct bigblock bigblock_t;
+/*
+ * struct slob_rcu is inserted at the tail of allocated slob blocks, which
+ * were created with a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU slab. slob_rcu is used to free
+ * the block using call_rcu.
+ */
+struct slob_rcu {
+ struct rcu_head head;
+ int size;
+};
+
static slob_t arena = { .next = &arena, .units = 1 };
static slob_t *slobfree = &arena;
static bigblock_t *bigblocks;
@@ -266,6 +277,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *block)
struct kmem_cache {
unsigned int size, align;
+ unsigned long flags;
const char *name;
void (*ctor)(void *, struct kmem_cache *, unsigned long);
void (*dtor)(void *, struct kmem_cache *, unsigned long);
@@ -283,6 +295,12 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
if (c) {
c->name = name;
c->size = size;
+ if (flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU) {
+ BUG_ON(dtor);
+ /* leave room for rcu footer at the end of object */
+ c->size += sizeof(struct slob_rcu);
+ }
+ c->flags = flags;
c->ctor = ctor;
c->dtor = dtor;
/* ignore alignment unless it's forced */
@@ -328,15 +346,35 @@ void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_zalloc);
-void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b)
+static void __kmem_cache_free(void *b, int size)
{
- if (c->dtor)
- c->dtor(b, c, 0);
-
- if (c->size < PAGE_SIZE)
- slob_free(b, c->size);
+ if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
+ slob_free(b, size);
else
- free_pages((unsigned long)b, get_order(c->size));
+ free_pages((unsigned long)b, get_order(size));
+}
+
+static void kmem_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+ struct slob_rcu *slob_rcu = (struct slob_rcu *)head;
+ void *b = (void *)slob_rcu - (slob_rcu->size - sizeof(struct slob_rcu));
+
+ __kmem_cache_free(b, slob_rcu->size);
+}
+
+void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b)
+{
+ if (unlikely(c->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) {
+ struct slob_rcu *slob_rcu;
+ slob_rcu = b + (c->size - sizeof(struct slob_rcu));
+ INIT_RCU_HEAD(&slob_rcu->head);
+ slob_rcu->size = c->size;
+ call_rcu(&slob_rcu->head, kmem_rcu_free);
+ } else {
+ if (c->dtor)
+ c->dtor(b, c, 0);
+ __kmem_cache_free(b, c->size);
+ }
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);