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-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h24
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h9
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab_def.h4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slub_def.h2
4 files changed, 27 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 011eb85d7b0f..bd299418a934 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -44,18 +44,22 @@ struct page {
/* First double word block */
unsigned long flags; /* Atomic flags, some possibly
* updated asynchronously */
- struct address_space *mapping; /* If low bit clear, points to
- * inode address_space, or NULL.
- * If page mapped as anonymous
- * memory, low bit is set, and
- * it points to anon_vma object:
- * see PAGE_MAPPING_ANON below.
- */
+ union {
+ struct address_space *mapping; /* If low bit clear, points to
+ * inode address_space, or NULL.
+ * If page mapped as anonymous
+ * memory, low bit is set, and
+ * it points to anon_vma object:
+ * see PAGE_MAPPING_ANON below.
+ */
+ void *s_mem; /* slab first object */
+ };
+
/* Second double word */
struct {
union {
pgoff_t index; /* Our offset within mapping. */
- void *freelist; /* slub/slob first free object */
+ void *freelist; /* sl[aou]b first free object */
bool pfmemalloc; /* If set by the page allocator,
* ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was set
* and the low watermark was not
@@ -111,6 +115,7 @@ struct page {
};
atomic_t _count; /* Usage count, see below. */
};
+ unsigned int active; /* SLAB */
};
};
@@ -132,6 +137,9 @@ struct page {
struct list_head list; /* slobs list of pages */
struct slab *slab_page; /* slab fields */
+ struct rcu_head rcu_head; /* Used by SLAB
+ * when destroying via RCU
+ */
#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && USE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS
pgtable_t pmd_huge_pte; /* protected by page->ptl */
#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 74f105847d13..c2bba248fa63 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -53,7 +53,14 @@
* }
* rcu_read_unlock();
*
- * See also the comment on struct slab_rcu in mm/slab.c.
+ * This is useful if we need to approach a kernel structure obliquely,
+ * from its address obtained without the usual locking. We can lock
+ * the structure to stabilize it and check it's still at the given address,
+ * only if we can be sure that the memory has not been meanwhile reused
+ * for some other kind of object (which our subsystem's lock might corrupt).
+ *
+ * rcu_read_lock before reading the address, then rcu_read_unlock after
+ * taking the spinlock within the structure expected at that address.
*/
#define SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
#define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */
diff --git a/include/linux/slab_def.h b/include/linux/slab_def.h
index e9346b4f1ef4..09bfffb08a56 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab_def.h
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ struct kmem_cache {
size_t colour; /* cache colouring range */
unsigned int colour_off; /* colour offset */
- struct kmem_cache *slabp_cache;
- unsigned int slab_size;
+ struct kmem_cache *freelist_cache;
+ unsigned int freelist_size;
/* constructor func */
void (*ctor)(void *obj);
diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
index cc0b67eada42..f56bfa9e4526 100644
--- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
enum stat_item {
ALLOC_FASTPATH, /* Allocation from cpu slab */
ALLOC_SLOWPATH, /* Allocation by getting a new cpu slab */
- FREE_FASTPATH, /* Free to cpu slub */
+ FREE_FASTPATH, /* Free to cpu slab */
FREE_SLOWPATH, /* Freeing not to cpu slab */
FREE_FROZEN, /* Freeing to frozen slab */
FREE_ADD_PARTIAL, /* Freeing moves slab to partial list */