31 Dec, 2006
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Recent cleanup of slab.h broke SLOB allocator: the routine kmem_cache_init
has now the __init attribute for both slab.c and slob.c. This routine
cannot be removed after init in the case of slob.c -- it serves as a timer
callback.Provide a separate timer callback routine, call it once from kmem_cache_init,
keep the __init attribute on the latter.Signed-off-by: Dimitri Gorokhovik
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Dec, 2006
2 commits
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More cleanups for slab.h
1. Remove tabs from weird locations as suggested by Pekka
2. Drop the check for NUMA and SLAB_DEBUG from the fallback section
as suggested by Pekka.3. Uses static inline for the fallback defs as also suggested by Pekka.
4. Make kmem_ptr_valid take a const * argument.
5. Separate the NUMA fallback definitions from the kmalloc_track fallback
definitions.Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is a response to an earlier discussion on linux-mm about splitting
slab.h components per allocator. Patch is against 2.6.19-git11. See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=116469577431008&w=2This patch cleans up the slab header definitions. We define the common
functions of slob and slab in slab.h and put the extra definitions needed
for slab's kmalloc implementations in . In order to get
a greater set of common functions we add several empty functions to slob.c
and also rename slob's kmalloc to __kmalloc.Slob does not need any special definitions since we introduce a fallback
case. If there is no need for a slab implementation to provide its own
kmalloc mess^H^H^Hacros then we simply fall back to __kmalloc functions.
That is sufficient for SLOB.Sort the function in slab.h according to their functionality. First the
functions operating on struct kmem_cache * then the kmalloc related
functions followed by special debug and fallback definitions.Also redo a lot of comments.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter ?
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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un-, de-, -free, -destroy, -exit, etc functions should in general return
void. Also,There is very little, say, filesystem driver code can do upon failed
kmem_cache_destroy(). If it will be decided to BUG in this case, BUG
should be put in generic code, instead.Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Sep, 2006
2 commits
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Remove the atomic counter for slab_reclaim_pages and replace the counter
and NR_SLAB with two ZVC counter that account for unreclaimable and
reclaimable slab pages: NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE.Change the check in vmscan.c to refer to to NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE. The
intend seems to be to check for slab pages that could be freed.Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The allocpercpu functions __alloc_percpu and __free_percpu() are heavily
using the slab allocator. However, they are conceptually slab. This also
simplifies SLOB (at this point slob may be broken in mm. This should fix
it).Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Matt Mackall
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
20 Apr, 2006
1 commit
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Convert for-loops that explicitly reference "NR_CPUS" into the
potentially more efficient for_each_possible_cpu() construct.Signed-off-by: John Hawkes
Cc: Matt Mackall
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Mar, 2006
1 commit
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Introduce a memory-zeroing variant of kmem_cache_alloc. The allocator
already exits in XFS and there are potential users for it so this patch
makes the allocator available for the general public.Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Feb, 2006
1 commit
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fix CONFIG_SLOB=y (when CONFIG_SMP=y): get rid of the 'align' parameter
from its __alloc_percpu() implementation. Boot-tested on x86.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Jan, 2006
1 commit
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configurable replacement for slab allocator
This adds a CONFIG_SLAB option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. When CONFIG_SLAB is
disabled, the kernel falls back to using the 'SLOB' allocator.SLOB is a traditional K&R/UNIX allocator with a SLAB emulation layer,
similar to the original Linux kmalloc allocator that SLAB replaced. It's
signicantly smaller code and is more memory efficient. But like all
similar allocators, it scales poorly and suffers from fragmentation more
than SLAB, so it's only appropriate for small systems.It's been tested extensively in the Linux-tiny tree. I've also
stress-tested it with make -j 8 compiles on a 3G SMP+PREEMPT box (not
recommended).Here's a comparison for otherwise identical builds, showing SLOB saving
nearly half a megabyte of RAM:$ size vmlinux*
text data bss dec hex filename
3336372 529360 190812 4056544 3de5e0 vmlinux-slab
3323208 527948 190684 4041840 3dac70 vmlinux-slob$ size mm/{slab,slob}.o
text data bss dec hex filename
13221 752 48 14021 36c5 mm/slab.o
1896 52 8 1956 7a4 mm/slob.o/proc/meminfo:
SLAB SLOB delta
MemTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB
MemFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB
Buffers: 36 kB 36 kB 0 kB
Cached: 1188 kB 1188 kB 0 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
Active: 608 kB 600 kB -8 kB
Inactive: 808 kB 812 kB +4 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
LowTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB
LowFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
Dirty: 4 kB 12 kB +8 kB
Writeback: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB
Mapped: 560 kB 556 kB -4 kB
Slab: 1756 kB 0 kB -1756 kB
CommitLimit: 13980 kB 13988 kB +8 kB
Committed_AS: 4208 kB 4208 kB 0 kB
PageTables: 28 kB 28 kB 0 kB
VmallocTotal: 1007312 kB 1007312 kB 0 kB
VmallocUsed: 48 kB 48 kB 0 kB
VmallocChunk: 1007264 kB 1007264 kB 0 kB(this work has been sponsored in part by CELF)
From: Ingo Molnar
Fix 32-bitness bugs in mm/slob.c.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
