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diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 1a482e8402c..b0414d12fd0 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -479,11 +479,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(slab_buffer_size);
#endif
/*
- * Do not go above this order unless 0 objects fit into the slab.
+ * Do not go above this order unless 0 objects fit into the slab or
+ * overridden on the command line.
*/
#define SLAB_MAX_ORDER_HI 1
#define SLAB_MAX_ORDER_LO 0
static int slab_max_order = SLAB_MAX_ORDER_LO;
+static bool slab_max_order_set __initdata;
/*
* Functions for storing/retrieving the cachep and or slab from the page
@@ -851,6 +853,17 @@ static int __init noaliencache_setup(char *s)
}
__setup("noaliencache", noaliencache_setup);
+static int __init slab_max_order_setup(char *str)
+{
+ get_option(&str, &slab_max_order);
+ slab_max_order = slab_max_order < 0 ? 0 :
+ min(slab_max_order, MAX_ORDER - 1);
+ slab_max_order_set = true;
+
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("slab_max_order=", slab_max_order_setup);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
/*
* Special reaping functions for NUMA systems called from cache_reap().
@@ -1499,9 +1512,10 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
/*
* Fragmentation resistance on low memory - only use bigger
- * page orders on machines with more than 32MB of memory.
+ * page orders on machines with more than 32MB of memory if
+ * not overridden on the command line.
*/
- if (totalram_pages > (32 << 20) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+ if (!slab_max_order_set && totalram_pages > (32 << 20) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
slab_max_order = SLAB_MAX_ORDER_HI;
/* Bootstrap is tricky, because several objects are allocated