Re: [PATCH] SLOB allocator imcompatible SLAB

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:08:07PM +0900, Yoshinori Sato wrote:
> Because the page which SLOB allocator got does not have PG_slab,

This is for a NOMMU system?

You're using an old kernel with an old version of SLOB. SLOB in newer
kernels actually sets per-page flags. Nick, can you see any reason not
to s/PG_active/PG_slab/ in the current code?

> Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
> index 71976c5..d10bcda 100644
> --- a/mm/slob.c
> +++ b/mm/slob.c
> @@ -73,6 +73,21 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(block_lock);
>  static void slob_free(void *b, int size);
>  static void slob_timer_cbk(void);
>  
> +static inline void set_slabflags(const void *ptr, int order)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +	struct page *page = virt_to_page(ptr);
> +	for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
> +		__SetPageSlab(page++);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void clear_slabflags(const void *ptr, int order)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +	struct page *page = virt_to_page(ptr);
> +	for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
> +		__ClearPageSlab(page++);
> +}
>  
>  static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align)
>  {
> @@ -180,6 +195,7 @@ void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
>  	bb->pages = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp, bb->order);
>  
>  	if (bb->pages) {
> +		set_slabflags(bb->pages, bb->order);
>  		spin_lock_irqsave(&block_lock, flags);
>  		bb->next = bigblocks;
>  		bigblocks = bb;
> @@ -240,6 +256,7 @@ void kfree(const void *block)
>  			if (bb->pages == block) {
>  				*last = bb->next;
>  				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&block_lock, flags);
> +				clear_slabflags(block, bb->order);
>  				free_pages((unsigned long)block, bb->order);
>  				slob_free(bb, sizeof(bigblock_t));
>  				return;
> @@ -323,9 +340,11 @@ void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags)
>  
>  	if (c->size < PAGE_SIZE)
>  		b = slob_alloc(c->size, flags, c->align);
> -	else
> +	else {
>  		b = (void *)__get_free_pages(flags, get_order(c->size));
> -
> +		if (b)
> +			set_slabflags(b, get_order(c->size));
> +	}
>  	if (c->ctor)
>  		c->ctor(b, c, 0);
>  
> @@ -347,8 +366,10 @@ static void __kmem_cache_free(void *b, int size)
>  {
>  	if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
>  		slob_free(b, size);
> -	else
> +	else {
> +		clear_slabflags(b, get_order(size));
>  		free_pages((unsigned long)b, get_order(size));
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static void kmem_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)

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