jbd2: allocate transaction from separate slab cache

There is normally only a handful of these active at any one time, but
putting them in a separate slab cache makes debugging memory
corruption problems easier.  Manish Katiyar also wanted this make it
easier to test memory failure scenarios in the jbd2 layer.

Cc: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 52653306254..d0a8b017b28 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -33,6 +33,35 @@
 static void __jbd2_journal_temp_unlink_buffer(struct journal_head *jh);
 static void __jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer(struct journal_head *jh);
 
+static struct kmem_cache *transaction_cache;
+int __init jbd2_journal_init_transaction_cache(void)
+{
+	J_ASSERT(!transaction_cache);
+	transaction_cache = kmem_cache_create("jbd2_transaction_s",
+					sizeof(transaction_t),
+					0,
+					SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_TEMPORARY,
+					NULL);
+	if (transaction_cache)
+		return 0;
+	return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+void jbd2_journal_destroy_transaction_cache(void)
+{
+	if (transaction_cache) {
+		kmem_cache_destroy(transaction_cache);
+		transaction_cache = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+void jbd2_journal_free_transaction(transaction_t *transaction)
+{
+	if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(transaction)))
+		return;
+	kmem_cache_free(transaction_cache, transaction);
+}
+
 /*
  * jbd2_get_transaction: obtain a new transaction_t object.
  *
@@ -133,7 +162,8 @@ static int start_this_handle(journal_t *journal, handle_t *handle,
 
 alloc_transaction:
 	if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
-		new_transaction = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction), gfp_mask);
+		new_transaction = kmem_cache_alloc(transaction_cache,
+						   gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO);
 		if (!new_transaction) {
 			/*
 			 * If __GFP_FS is not present, then we may be
@@ -162,7 +192,7 @@ repeat:
 	if (is_journal_aborted(journal) ||
 	    (journal->j_errno != 0 && !(journal->j_flags & JBD2_ACK_ERR))) {
 		read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
-		kfree(new_transaction);
+		jbd2_journal_free_transaction(new_transaction);
 		return -EROFS;
 	}
 
@@ -284,7 +314,7 @@ repeat:
 	read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
 
 	lock_map_acquire(&handle->h_lockdep_map);
-	kfree(new_transaction);
+	jbd2_journal_free_transaction(new_transaction);
 	return 0;
 }