From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:03:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: SLUB slab validation: Move tracking information alloc outside of lock X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc1~751 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=68dff6a9af9f27df5aeee6d0339818b0e36c1b51;p=linux-2.6 SLUB slab validation: Move tracking information alloc outside of lock We currently have to do an GFP_ATOMIC allocation because the list_lock is already taken when we first allocate memory for tracking allocation information. It would be better if we could avoid atomic allocations. Allocate a size of the tracking table that is usually sufficient (one page) before we take the list lock. We will then only do the atomic allocation if we need to resize the table to become larger than a page (mostly only needed under large NUMA because of the tracking of cpus and nodes otherwise the table stays small). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 3c9e98f099..a5832f8223 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -2902,18 +2902,14 @@ static void free_loc_track(struct loc_track *t) get_order(sizeof(struct location) * t->max)); } -static int alloc_loc_track(struct loc_track *t, unsigned long max) +static int alloc_loc_track(struct loc_track *t, unsigned long max, gfp_t flags) { struct location *l; int order; - if (!max) - max = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct location); - order = get_order(sizeof(struct location) * max); - l = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order); - + l = (void *)__get_free_pages(flags, order); if (!l) return 0; @@ -2979,7 +2975,7 @@ static int add_location(struct loc_track *t, struct kmem_cache *s, /* * Not found. Insert new tracking element. */ - if (t->count >= t->max && !alloc_loc_track(t, 2 * t->max)) + if (t->count >= t->max && !alloc_loc_track(t, 2 * t->max, GFP_ATOMIC)) return 0; l = t->loc + pos; @@ -3022,11 +3018,12 @@ static int list_locations(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf, { int n = 0; unsigned long i; - struct loc_track t; + struct loc_track t = { 0, 0, NULL }; int node; - t.count = 0; - t.max = 0; + if (!alloc_loc_track(&t, PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct location), + GFP_KERNEL)) + return sprintf(buf, "Out of memory\n"); /* Push back cpu slabs */ flush_all(s);