mm/slab_common: commonize slab merge logic

Slab merge is good feature to reduce fragmentation.  Now, it is only
applied to SLUB, but, it would be good to apply it to SLAB.  This patch is
preparation step to apply slab merge to SLAB by commonizing slab merge
logic.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 91 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index d7d8ffd0c306..f206cb10a544 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -31,6 +31,34 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(slab_mutex);
 struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache;
 
 /*
+ * Set of flags that will prevent slab merging
+ */
+#define SLAB_NEVER_MERGE (SLAB_RED_ZONE | SLAB_POISON | SLAB_STORE_USER | \
+		SLAB_TRACE | SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU | SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE | \
+		SLAB_FAILSLAB)
+
+#define SLAB_MERGE_SAME (SLAB_DEBUG_FREE | SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | \
+		SLAB_CACHE_DMA | SLAB_NOTRACK)
+
+/*
+ * Merge control. If this is set then no merging of slab caches will occur.
+ * (Could be removed. This was introduced to pacify the merge skeptics.)
+ */
+static int slab_nomerge;
+
+static int __init setup_slab_nomerge(char *str)
+{
+	slab_nomerge = 1;
+	return 1;
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB
+__setup_param("slub_nomerge", slub_nomerge, setup_slab_nomerge, 0);
+#endif
+
+__setup("slab_nomerge", setup_slab_nomerge);
+
+/*
  * Determine the size of a slab object
  */
 unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s)
@@ -116,6 +144,69 @@ out:
 #endif
 
 /*
+ * Find a mergeable slab cache
+ */
+int slab_unmergeable(struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+	if (slab_nomerge || (s->flags & SLAB_NEVER_MERGE))
+		return 1;
+
+	if (!is_root_cache(s))
+		return 1;
+
+	if (s->ctor)
+		return 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * We may have set a slab to be unmergeable during bootstrap.
+	 */
+	if (s->refcount < 0)
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+struct kmem_cache *find_mergeable(size_t size, size_t align,
+		unsigned long flags, const char *name, void (*ctor)(void *))
+{
+	struct kmem_cache *s;
+
+	if (slab_nomerge || (flags & SLAB_NEVER_MERGE))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (ctor)
+		return NULL;
+
+	size = ALIGN(size, sizeof(void *));
+	align = calculate_alignment(flags, align, size);
+	size = ALIGN(size, align);
+	flags = kmem_cache_flags(size, flags, name, NULL);
+
+	list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) {
+		if (slab_unmergeable(s))
+			continue;
+
+		if (size > s->size)
+			continue;
+
+		if ((flags & SLAB_MERGE_SAME) != (s->flags & SLAB_MERGE_SAME))
+			continue;
+		/*
+		 * Check if alignment is compatible.
+		 * Courtesy of Adrian Drzewiecki
+		 */
+		if ((s->size & ~(align - 1)) != s->size)
+			continue;
+
+		if (s->size - size >= sizeof(void *))
+			continue;
+
+		return s;
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+/*
  * Figure out what the alignment of the objects will be given a set of
  * flags, a user specified alignment and the size of the objects.
  */