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Michael Opdenacker e7efa615cc slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentation
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>
2013-07-07 19:02:59 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 069e2b351d slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.h
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>
2013-06-18 18:34:43 +03:00
Christoph Lameter c601fd6956 slab: Handle ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN correctly
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>
2013-02-06 20:32:13 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 9425c58e54 slab: Common definition for the array of kmalloc caches
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>
2013-02-01 12:32:07 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 95a05b428c slab: Common constants for kmalloc boundaries
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>
2013-02-01 12:32:07 +02:00
Christoph Lameter ce6a50263d slab: Common kmalloc slab index determination
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>
2013-02-01 12:32:05 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 3450466734 slab: Move kmalloc related function defs
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>
2013-02-01 12:32:05 +02:00
Glauber Costa 943a451a87 slab: propagate tunable values
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>
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
Glauber Costa 749c54151a memcg: aggregate memcg cache values in slabinfo
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>
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
Glauber Costa 1f458cbf12 memcg: destroy memcg caches
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>
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
Glauber Costa 2633d7a028 slab/slub: consider a memcg parameter in kmem_create_cache
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>
2012-12-18 15:02:13 -08:00
Glauber Costa ba6c496ed8 slab/slub: struct memcg_params
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>
2012-12-18 15:02:13 -08:00
Ezequiel Garcia 242860a47a mm/sl[aou]b: Move common kmem_cache_size() to slab.h
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>
2012-10-31 08:52:15 +02:00
Ezequiel Garcia f3f7410195 mm, slob: Add support for kmalloc_track_caller()
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>
2012-09-25 10:14:18 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 97d0660915 mm, sl[aou]b: Common definition for boot state of the slab allocators
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>
2012-07-09 12:13:35 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 039363f38b mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common code for kmem_cache_create()
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>
2012-07-09 12:13:30 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 3b0efdfa1e mm, sl[aou]b: Extract common fields from struct kmem_cache
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>
2012-06-14 09:20:16 +03:00
Xi Wang a3860c1c5d introduce SIZE_MAX
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>
2012-05-31 17:49:26 -07:00
Xi Wang a8203725df slab: introduce kmalloc_array()
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>
2012-03-06 11:01:33 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 90810645f7 slab allocators: Provide generic description of alignment defines
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>
2011-07-07 21:04:12 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 3192b920bf slab, slub, slob: Unify alignment definition
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>
2011-06-16 19:40:20 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 63310467a3 mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name()
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>
2011-01-23 21:00:05 +02:00
Nick Piggin ccd35fb9f4 kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful
This is a nasty and error prone API. It is no longer used, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:16 +11:00
Xiaotian Feng 7adde04a2f slab: fix caller tracking on !CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB && CONFIG_TRACING
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>
2010-07-04 19:48:33 +03:00
Pekka Enberg fc1c183353 slab: Generify kernel pointer validation
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>
2010-04-09 10:09:50 -07:00
Dmitry Monakhov 4c13dd3b48 failslab: add ability to filter slab caches
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>
2010-02-26 19:19:39 +02:00
Vegard Nossum 722f2a6c87 Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEAD
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 15:50:49 +02:00
Vegard Nossum 2dff440525 kmemcheck: add mm functions
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>
2009-06-15 12:40:03 +02:00
Pekka Enberg 7e85ee0c1d slab,slub: don't enable interrupts during early boot
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>
2009-06-12 18:53:33 +03:00
Catalin Marinas d5cff63529 kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
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>
2009-06-11 17:03:29 +01:00
Johannes Weiner 3ef0e5ba46 slab: introduce kzfree()
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>
2009-02-20 17:57:48 -08:00
Pekka Enberg fd37617e69 Merge branches 'topic/fixes', 'topic/cleanups' and 'topic/documentation' into for-linus 2008-12-29 11:45:47 +02:00
Pascal Terjan dfcd361028 slab: Fix comment on #endif
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>
2008-12-29 11:40:56 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu ce71e27c6f SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.
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>
2008-11-26 16:47:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra d7de4c1dc3 slab: document SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
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>
2008-11-13 20:49:02 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan 7b3c3a50a3 proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.c
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>
2008-10-23 15:20:06 +04:00
Linus Torvalds 2284284281 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 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
2008-07-26 20:17:56 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 93bc4e89c2 netfilter: fix double-free and use-after free
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>
2008-07-26 17:49:33 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 51cc50685a SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor
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>
2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
Milton Miller 9ca908f47b kcalloc: remove runtime division
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>
2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
Christoph Lameter cde5353599 Christoph has moved
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>
2008-07-04 10:40:04 -07:00
Jeff Layton 979b0fea2d vm: add kzalloc_node() inline
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>
2008-06-06 11:29:14 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day 735643ee6c Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headers
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 30327acf78 slab: add a flag to prevent debug_free checks on a kmem_cache
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>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 158a962422 Unify /proc/slabinfo configuration
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>
2008-01-02 13:04:48 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 4ba9b9d0ba Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters
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>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
Mel Gorman e12ba74d8f Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations
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>
2007-10-16 09:43:00 -07:00
Roland Dreier 1d4ec7b1d6 Fix ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(ZERO_SIZE_PTR)
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>
2007-07-20 12:33:44 -07:00
Paul Mundt 20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 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>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Christoph Lameter 81cda66261 Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations
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>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00