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authorChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>2010-08-20 12:37:15 -0500
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2010-10-02 10:24:27 +0300
commit51df1142816e469173889fb6d6dc810be9b9e022 (patch)
treee2827e87486675b514c68f06d67ac5980cd6ceb1 /include/linux/slub_def.h
parent6c182dc0de26ef97efb6a97a8deab074833764e7 (diff)
slub: Dynamically size kmalloc cache allocations
kmalloc caches are statically defined and may take up a lot of space just because the sizes of the node array has to be dimensioned for the largest node count supported. This patch makes the size of the kmem_cache structure dynamic throughout by creating a kmem_cache slab cache for the kmem_cache objects. The bootstrap occurs by allocating the initial one or two kmem_cache objects from the page allocator. C2->C3 - Fix various issues indicated by David - Make create kmalloc_cache return a kmem_cache * pointer. Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slub_def.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slub_def.h7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
index 9f63538928c0..a6c43ec6a4a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
@@ -139,19 +139,16 @@ struct kmem_cache {
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
#define SLUB_DMA __GFP_DMA
-/* Reserve extra caches for potential DMA use */
-#define KMALLOC_CACHES (2 * SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT)
#else
/* Disable DMA functionality */
#define SLUB_DMA (__force gfp_t)0
-#define KMALLOC_CACHES SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT
#endif
/*
* We keep the general caches in an array of slab caches that are used for
* 2^x bytes of allocations.
*/
-extern struct kmem_cache kmalloc_caches[KMALLOC_CACHES];
+extern struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_caches[SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT];
/*
* Sorry that the following has to be that ugly but some versions of GCC
@@ -216,7 +213,7 @@ static __always_inline struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_slab(size_t size)
if (index == 0)
return NULL;
- return &kmalloc_caches[index];
+ return kmalloc_caches[index];
}
void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);