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authorJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>2015-11-20 15:57:58 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-22 11:58:44 -0800
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slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API
Adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API before we have any real users. Adjust API to return type 'int' instead of previously type 'bool'. This is done to allow future extension of the bulk alloc API. A future extension could be to allow SLUB to stop at a page boundary, when specified by a flag, and then return the number of objects. The advantage of this approach, would make it easier to make bulk alloc run without local IRQs disabled. With an approach of cmpxchg "stealing" the entire c->freelist or page->freelist. To avoid overshooting we would stop processing at a slab-page boundary. Else we always end up returning some objects at the cost of another cmpxchg. To keep compatible with future users of this API linking against an older kernel when using the new flag, we need to return the number of allocated objects with this API change. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab_common.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index d88e97c10a2e..3c6a86b4ec25 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ void __kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t nr, void **p)
kmem_cache_free(s, p[i]);
}
-bool __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t nr,
+int __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t nr,
void **p)
{
size_t i;
@@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ bool __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t nr,
void *x = p[i] = kmem_cache_alloc(s, flags);
if (!x) {
__kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, i, p);
- return false;
+ return 0;
}
}
- return true;
+ return i;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM