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2013-07-07slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentationMichael Opdenacker
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 <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-06-18slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.hChristoph Lameter
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 <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-06slab: Handle ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN correctlyChristoph Lameter
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 <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01slab: Common definition for the array of kmalloc cachesChristoph Lameter
Have a common definition fo the kmalloc cache arrays in SLAB and SLUB Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01slab: Common constants for kmalloc boundariesChristoph Lameter
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 <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01slab: Common kmalloc slab index determinationChristoph Lameter
Extract the function to determine the index of the slab within the array of kmalloc caches as well as a function to determine maximum object size from the nr of the kmalloc slab. This is used here only to simplify slub bootstrap but will be used later also for SLAB. Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01slab: Move kmalloc related function defsChristoph Lameter
Move these functions higher up in slab.h so that they are grouped with other generic kmalloc related definitions. Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-12-18slab: propagate tunable valuesGlauber Costa
SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables. When creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the parent cache already had. This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the cache is created. But this is not very convenient now that the caches are created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific. Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is called at cache initialization. We can just preset the values, and then things work as expected. It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during normal system operation. In this case, we will propagate the change to all caches that are already active. This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in memcg_params a bit earlier. We need this to be already set - which memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create() Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18memcg: aggregate memcg cache values in slabinfoGlauber Costa
When we create caches in memcgs, we need to display their usage information somewhere. We'll adopt a scheme similar to /proc/meminfo, with aggregate totals shown in the global file, and per-group information stored in the group itself. For the time being, only reads are allowed in the per-group cache. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18memcg: destroy memcg cachesGlauber Costa
Implement destruction of memcg caches. Right now, only caches where our reference counter is the last remaining are deleted. If there are any other reference counters around, we just leave the caches lying around until they go away. When that happens, a destruction function is called from the cache code. Caches are only destroyed in process context, so we queue them up for later processing in the general case. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18slab/slub: consider a memcg parameter in kmem_create_cacheGlauber Costa
Allow a memcg parameter to be passed during cache creation. When the slub allocator is being used, it will only merge caches that belong to the same memcg. We'll do this by scanning the global list, and then translating the cache to a memcg-specific cache Default function is created as a wrapper, passing NULL to the memcg version. We only merge caches that belong to the same memcg. A helper is provided, memcg_css_id: because slub needs a unique cache name for sysfs. Since this is visible, but not the canonical location for slab data, the cache name is not used, the css_id should suffice. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18slab/slub: struct memcg_paramsGlauber Costa
For the kmem slab controller, we need to record some extra information in the kmem_cache structure. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-31mm/sl[aou]b: Move common kmem_cache_size() to slab.hEzequiel Garcia
This function is identically defined in all three allocators and it's trivial to move it to slab.h Since now it's static, inline, header-defined function this patch also drops the EXPORT_SYMBOL tag. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-09-25mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller()Ezequiel Garcia
Currently slob falls back to regular kmalloc for this case. With this patch kmalloc_track_caller() is correctly implemented, thus tracing the specified caller. This is important to trace accurately allocations performed by krealloc, kstrdup, kmemdup, etc. Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09mm, sl[aou]b: Common definition for boot state of the slab allocatorsChristoph Lameter
All allocators have some sort of support for the bootstrap status. Setup a common definition for the boot states and make all slab allocators use that definition. Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common code for kmem_cache_create()Christoph Lameter
Kmem_cache_create() does a variety of sanity checks but those vary depending on the allocator. Use the strictest tests and put them into a slab_common file. Make the tests conditional on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. This patch has the effect of adding sanity checks for SLUB and SLOB under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and removes the checks in SLAB for !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-06-14mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct kmem_cacheChristoph Lameter
Define a struct that describes common fields used in all slab allocators. A slab allocator either uses the common definition (like SLOB) or is required to provide members of kmem_cache with the definition given. After that it will be possible to share code that only operates on those fields of kmem_cache. The patch basically takes the slob definition of kmem cache and uses the field namees for the other allocators. It also standardizes the names used for basic object lengths in allocators: object_size Struct size specified at kmem_cache_create. Basically the payload expected to be used by the subsystem. size The size of memory allocator for each object. This size is larger than object_size and includes padding, alignment and extra metadata for each object (f.e. for debugging and rcu). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-05-31introduce SIZE_MAXXi Wang
ULONG_MAX is often used to check for integer overflow when calculating allocation size. While ULONG_MAX happens to work on most systems, there is no guarantee that `size_t' must be the same size as `long'. This patch introduces SIZE_MAX, the maximum value of `size_t', to improve portability and readability for allocation size validation. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-06slab: introduce kmalloc_array()Xi Wang
Introduce a kmalloc_array() wrapper that performs integer overflow checking without zeroing the memory. Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-07-07slab allocators: Provide generic description of alignment definesChristoph Lameter
Provide description for alignment defines. Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-06-16slab, slub, slob: Unify alignment definitionChristoph Lameter
Every slab has its on alignment definition in include/linux/sl?b_def.h. Extract those and define a common set in include/linux/slab.h. SLOB: As notes sometimes we need double word alignment on 32 bit. This gives all structures allocated by SLOB a unsigned long long alignment like the others do. SLAB: If ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is not set SLAB would set ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN to zero meaning no alignment at all. Give it the default unsigned long long alignment. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-01-23mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name()Christoph Lameter
The last user was ext4 and Eric Sandeen removed the call in a recent patch. See the following URL for the discussion: http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=129546975702198&w=2 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-01-07kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmfulNick Piggin
This is a nasty and error prone API. It is no longer used, remove it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2010-07-04slab: fix caller tracking on !CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB && CONFIG_TRACINGXiaotian Feng
In slab, all __xxx_track_caller is defined on CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB || CONFIG_TRACING, thus caller tracking function should be worked for CONFIG_TRACING. But if CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is not set, include/linux/slab.h will define xxx_track_caller to __xxx() without consideration of CONFIG_TRACING. This will break the caller tracking behaviour then. Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2010-04-09slab: Generify kernel pointer validationPekka Enberg
As suggested by Linus, introduce a kern_ptr_validate() helper that does some sanity checks to make sure a pointer is a valid kernel pointer. This is a preparational step for fixing SLUB kmem_ptr_validate(). Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-26failslab: add ability to filter slab cachesDmitry Monakhov
This patch allow to inject faults only for specific slabs. In order to preserve default behavior cache filter is off by default (all caches are faulty). One may define specific set of slabs like this: # mark skbuff_head_cache as faulty echo 1 > /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_head_cache/failslab # Turn on cache filter (off by default) echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/cache-filter # Turn on fault injection echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/times echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/probability Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-15Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEADVegard Nossum
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15kmemcheck: add mm functionsVegard Nossum
With kmemcheck enabled, the slab allocator needs to do this: 1. Tell kmemcheck to allocate the shadow memory which stores the status of each byte in the allocation proper, e.g. whether it is initialized or uninitialized. 2. Tell kmemcheck which parts of memory that should be marked uninitialized. There are actually a few more states, such as "not yet allocated" and "recently freed". If a slab cache is set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, it will never return memory that can take page faults because of kmemcheck. If a slab cache is NOT set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, callers can still request memory with the __GFP_NOTRACK flag. This does not prevent the page faults from occuring, however, but marks the object in question as being initialized so that no warnings will ever be produced for this object. In addition to (and in contrast to) __GFP_NOTRACK, the __GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag indicates that the allocation should not be tracked _because_ it would produce a false positive. Their values are identical, but need not be so in the future (for example, we could now enable/disable false positives with a config option). Parts of this patch were contributed by Pekka Enberg but merged for atomicity. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-12slab,slub: don't enable interrupts during early bootPekka Enberg
As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt: Oh and btw, your patch alone doesn't fix powerpc, because it's missing a whole bunch of GFP_KERNEL's in the arch code... You would have to grep the entire kernel for things that check slab_is_available() and even then you'll be missing some. For example, slab_is_available() didn't always exist, and so in the early days on powerpc, we used a mem_init_done global that is set form mem_init() (not perfect but works in practice). And we still have code using that to do the test. Therefore, mask out __GFP_WAIT, __GFP_IO, and __GFP_FS in the slab allocators in early boot code to avoid enabling interrupts. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooksCatalin Marinas
This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from the slab allocator. The patch also adds the SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE flag to avoid recursive calls to kmemleak when it allocates its own data structures. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-20slab: introduce kzfree()Johannes Weiner
kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying memory before releasing it to the slab allocator. Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use. These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily aware of the actual object size. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-29Merge branches 'topic/fixes', 'topic/cleanups' and 'topic/documentation' ↵Pekka Enberg
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2008-12-29slab: Fix comment on #endifPascal Terjan
This #endif in slab.h is described as closing the inner block while it's for the big CONFIG_NUMA one. That makes reading the code a bit harder. This trivial patch fixes the comment. Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
This patch replaces __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_, since a previous patch moved _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h and they're widely available now. This makes for shorter and easier to read code. [penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove _RET_IP_ casts to void pointer] Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-13slab: document SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCUPeter Zijlstra
Explain this SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU thing... [hugh@veritas.com: add a pointer to comment in mm/slab.c] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-10-23proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.cAlexey Dobriyan
Lose dummy ->write hook in case of SLUB, it's possible now. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: netns: fix ip_rt_frag_needed rt_is_expired netfilter: nf_conntrack_extend: avoid unnecessary "ct->ext" dereferences netfilter: fix double-free and use-after free netfilter: arptables in netns for real netfilter: ip{,6}tables_security: fix future section mismatch selinux: use nf_register_hooks() netfilter: ebtables: use nf_register_hooks() Revert "pkt_sched: sch_sfq: dump a real number of flows" qeth: use dev->ml_priv instead of dev->priv syncookies: Make sure ECN is disabled net: drop unused BUG_TRAP() net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON drivers/net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
2008-07-26netfilter: fix double-free and use-after freePekka Enberg
As suggested by Patrick McHardy, introduce a __krealloc() that doesn't free the original buffer to fix a double-free and use-after-free bug introduced by me in netfilter that uses RCU. Reported-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Tested-by: Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-26SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructorAlexey Dobriyan
Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object. Non-trivial places are: arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c This is flag day, yes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24kcalloc: remove runtime divisionMilton Miller
While in all cases in the kernel we know the size of the elements to be created, we don't always know the count of elements. By commuting the size and count in the overflow check, the compiler can reduce the runtime division of size_t with a compare to a (unique) constant in these cases. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04Christoph has movedChristoph Lameter
Remove all clameter@sgi.com addresses from the kernel tree since they will become invalid on June 27th. Change my maintainer email address for the slab allocators to cl@linux-foundation.org (which will be the new email address for the future). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06vm: add kzalloc_node() inlineJeff Layton
To get zeroed out memory from a particular NUMA node. To be used by sunrpc. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headersRobert P. J. Day
Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor test. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30slab: add a flag to prevent debug_free checks on a kmem_cacheThomas Gleixner
This is a preperatory patch for the debugobjects infrastructure. The flag prevents debug_free checks on kmem_caches. This is necessary to avoid resursive calls into a debug mechanism which uses a kmem_cache itself. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-02Unify /proc/slabinfo configurationLinus Torvalds
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>
2007-10-17Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parametersChristoph Lameter
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>
2007-10-16Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocationsMel Gorman
This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations. When something like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation. This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be reclaimed on demand, but not moved. i.e. they can be migrated by deleting them and re-reading the information from elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20Fix ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(ZERO_SIZE_PTR)Roland Dreier
The comparison with ZERO_SIZE_PTR in ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR() needs to be <= (not just <) so that ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(ZERO_SIZE_PTR) is 1. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> [ Duh! - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().Paul Mundt
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them either. This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create() completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves, or the documentation references). Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-17Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocationsChristoph Lameter
It becomes now easy to support the zeroing allocs with generic inline functions in slab.h. Provide inline definitions to allow the continued use of kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc but remove other definitions of zeroing functions from the slab allocators and util.c. 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>