There is now a generic method of falling back to a slab page of minimal
order. No need anymore for the fallback to kmalloc_large().
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

If any higher order allocation fails then fall back the smallest order
necessary to contain at least one object. This enables fallback for all
allocations to order 0 pages. The fallback will waste more memory (objects
will not fit neatly) and the fallback slabs will be not as efficient as larger
slabs since they contain less objects.

Note that SLAB also depends on order 1 allocations for some slabs that waste
too much memory if forced into PAGE_SIZE'd page. SLUB now can now deal with
failing order 1 allocs which SLAB cannot do.

Add a new field min that will contain the objects for the smallest possible order
for a slab cache.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Change the statistics to consider that slabs of the same slabcache
can have different number of objects in them since they may be of
different order.

Provide a new sysfs field

	total_objects

which shows the total objects that the allocated slabs of a slabcache
could hold.

Add a max field that holds the largest slab order that was ever used
for a slab cache.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Pack the order and the number of objects into a single word.
This saves some memory in the kmem_cache_structure and more importantly
allows us to fetch both values atomically.

Later the slab orders become runtime configurable and we need to fetch these
two items together in order to properly allocate a slab and initialize its
objects.

Fix the race by fetching the order and the number of objects in one word.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix memset() page order in new_slab()]
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Pass the number of objects to the for_each_object macro. Most of these are
debug related.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Split the inuse field up to be able to store the number of objects in this
page in the page struct as well. Necessary if we want to have pages of
various orders for a slab. Also avoids touching struct kmem_cache cachelines in
__slab_alloc().

Update diagnostic code to check the number of objects and make sure that
the number of objects always stays within the bounds of a 16 bit unsigned
integer.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Dump a list of unfreed objects if a slab cache is closed but
objects still remain.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

free_list looked a bit screwy so here is an attempt to clean it up.

free_list is is only used for freeing partial lists. We do not need to return a
parameter if we decrement nr_partial within the function which allows a
simplification of the whole thing.

The current version modifies nr_partial outside of the list_lock which is
technically not correct. It was only ok because we should be the only user of
this slab cache at this point.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

As pointed out by Ingo, the SLUB warning of calling kmem_cache_destroy()
with cache that still has objects triggers in practice. So turn this
WARN_ON() into a nice SLUB specific error message to avoid people
confusing it to a SLUB bug.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The per node counters are used mainly for showing data through the sysfs API.
If that API is not compiled in then there is no point in keeping track of this
data. Disable counters for the number of slabs and the number of total slabs
if !SLUB_DEBUG. Incrementing the per node counters is also accessing a
potentially contended cacheline so this could actually be a performance
benefit to embedded systems.

SLABINFO support is also affected. It now must depends on SLUB_DEBUG (which
is on by default).

Patch also avoids a check for a NULL kmem_cache_node pointer in new_slab()
if the system is not compiled with NUMA support.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix oops and move ->nr_slabs into CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG]
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

__free_slab does some diagnostics. The resetting of mapcount etc
in discard_slab() can interfere with debug processing. So move
the reset immediately before the page is freed.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Only output per cpu stats if the kernel is build for SMP.

Use a capital "C" as a leading character for the processor number
(same as the numa statistics that also use a capital letter "N").
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

count_partial() is used by both slabinfo and the sysfs proc support. Move
the function directly before the beginning of the sysfs code so that it can
be easily found. Rework the preprocessor conditional to take into account
that slub sysfs support depends on CONFIG_SYSFS *and* CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG.

Make CONFIG_SLUB_STATS depend on CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG and CONFIG_SYSFS. There
is no point of keeping statistics if no one can restrive them.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Move the definition of kmalloc_caches_dma() into a later #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA.
This saves one #ifdef and leaves us with a total of two #ifdefs for dma slab support.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

As spotted by kmemcheck, we need to initialize the per-CPU ->stat array before
using it.

[kmem_cache_cpu structures are usually allocated from arrays defined via
DEFINE_PER_CPU that are zeroed so we have not noticed this so far --cl].
Reported-by: NVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

Small typo in the patch recently merged to avoid the unused symbol
message for count_partial(). Discussion thread with confirmation of fix at
http://marc.info/?t=120696854400001&r=1&w=2

Typo in the check if we need the count_partial function that was
introduced by 53625b42Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This reverts commit 3811dbf6.

The masking was not at all useless, and it was sensible.  We handle
GFP_ZERO in the caller, and passing it down to any page allocator logic
is buggy and wrong.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Avoid warnings about unused functions if neither SLUB_DEBUG nor CONFIG_SLABINFO
is defined. This patch will be reversed when slab defrag is merged since slab
defrag requires count_partial() to determine the fragmentation status of
slab caches.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

The fallback path needs to enable interrupts like done for
the other page allocator calls. This was not necessary with
the alternate fast path since we handled irq enable/disable in
the slow path. The regular fastpath handles irq enable/disable
around calls to the slow path so we need to restore the proper
status before calling the page allocator from the slowpath.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

SLUB should pack even small objects nicely into cachelines if that is what
has been asked for. Use the same algorithm as SLAB for this.

The effect of this patch for a system with a cacheline size of 64
bytes is that the 24 byte sized slab caches will now put exactly
2 objects into a cacheline instead of 3 with some overlap into
the next cacheline. This reduces the object density in a 4k slab
from 170 to 128 objects (same as SLAB).
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

The remote frees are in the freelist of the page and not in the
percpu freelist.
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

This patch fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kzalloc
failed. To be able to return proper error code the function
return type is changed to ssize_t (according to callees and
sysfs definitions).
Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Slub is missing some NUMA support for large kmallocs. Provide that.
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

We only need to look up object from c->page->freelist once in
__slab_alloc().
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Provide comments and fix up various spelling / style issues.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Group SLUB_DEBUG code together to reduce the number of #ifdefs. Move some
debug checks under the #ifdef.
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

The BUG_ONs are useless since the pointer derefs will lead to
NULL deref errors anyways. Some of the checks are not necessary
if no debugging is possible.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

No need to access the kmem_cache structure. We have the same value
in kmem_cache_cpu.
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Alloc debug processing is never called with a NULL object pointer.
No reason to check for NULL.
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

There is no page->offset anymore and also no associated limit on the number
of objects. The page->offset field was removed for 2.6.24. So the check
in kmem_cache_flags() is now also obsolete (should have been dropped
earlier, somehow a hunk vanished).
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

The sysfs callback is better named show_slab_objects since it is always
called from the xxx_show callbacks. We need the name for other purposes
later.
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

This only made sense for the alternate fastpath which was reverted last week.

Mathieu is working on a new version that addresses the fastpath issues but that
new code first needs to go through mm and it is not clear if we need the
unique end pointers with his new scheme.
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

This reverts commit 1f84260c, which is
suspected to be the reason for some very occasional and hard-to-trigger
crashes that usually look related to memory allocation (mostly reported
in networking, but since that's generally the most common source of
shortlived allocations - and allocations in interrupt contexts - that in
itself is not a big clue).

See for example
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9973
	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/278
etc.

One promising suspicion for what the root cause of bug is (which also
explains why it's so hard to trigger in practice) came from Eric
Dumazet:

   "I wonder how SLUB_FASTPATH is supposed to work, since it is affected
    by a classical ABA problem of lockless algo.

    cmpxchg_local(&c->freelist, object, object[c->offset]) can succeed,
    while an interrupt came (on this cpu), and several allocations were
    done, and one free was performed at the end of this interruption, so
    'object' was recycled.

    c->freelist can then contain the previous value (object), but
    object[c->offset] was changed by IRQ.

    We then put back in freelist an already allocated object."

but another reason for the revert is simply that everybody agrees that
this code was the main suspect just by virtue of the pattern of oopses.

Cc: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently we hand off PAGE_SIZEd kmallocs to the page allocator in the
mistaken belief that the page allocator can handle these allocations
effectively. However, measurements indicate a minimum slowdown by the
factor of 8 (and that is only SMP, NUMA is much worse) vs the slub fastpath
which causes regressions in tbench.

Increase the number of kmalloc caches by one so that we again handle 4k
kmallocs directly from slub. 4k page buffering for the page allocator
will be performed by slub like done by slab.

At some point the page allocator fastpath should be fixed. A lot of the kernel
would benefit from a faster ability to allocate a single page. If that is
done then the 4k allocs may again be forwarded to the page allocator and this
patch could be reverted.
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Slub already has two ways of allocating an object. One is via its own
logic and the other is via the call to kmalloc_large to hand off object
allocation to the page allocator. kmalloc_large is typically used
for objects >= PAGE_SIZE.

We can use that handoff to avoid failing if a higher order kmalloc slab
allocation cannot be satisfied by the page allocator. If we reach the
out of memory path then simply try a kmalloc_large(). kfree() can
already handle the case of an object that was allocated via the page
allocator and so this will work just fine (apart from object
accounting...).

For any kmalloc slab that already requires higher order allocs (which
makes it impossible to use the page allocator fastpath!)
we just use PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER to get the largest number of
objects in one go from the page allocator slowpath.

On a 4k platform this patch will lead to the following use of higher
order pages for the following kmalloc slabs:

8 ... 1024	order 0
2048 .. 4096	order 3 (4k slab only after the next patch)

We may waste some space if fallback occurs on a 2k slab but we
are always able to fallback to an order 0 alloc.
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Currently we determine the gfp flags to pass to the page allocator
each time a slab is being allocated.

Determine the bits to be set at the time the slab is created. Store
in a new allocflags field and add the flags in allocate_slab().
Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

slab_address() can become static.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

This adds a proper function for kmalloc page allocator pass-through. While it
simplifies any code that does slab tracing code a lot, I think it's a
worthwhile cleanup in itself.
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

fix checkpatch --file mm/slub.c errors and warnings.

 $ q-code-quality-compare
                                      errors   lines of code   errors/KLOC
 mm/slub.c      [before]                  22            4204           5.2
 mm/slub.c      [after]                    0            4210             0

no code changed:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   22195    8634     136   30965    78f5 slub.o.before
   22195    8634     136   30965    78f5 slub.o.after

   md5:
     93cdfbec2d6450622163c590e1064358  slub.o.before.asm
     93cdfbec2d6450622163c590e1064358  slub.o.after.asm

[clameter: rediffed against Pekka's cleanup patch, omitted
moves of the name of a function to the start of line]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>