The slab aliasing logic causes some strange contortions in slub. So add a call to deal with aliases to slab_common.c but disable it for other slab allocators by providng stubs that fail to create aliases. Full general support for aliases will require additional cleanup passes and more standardization of fields in kmem_cache. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.h | 10 ++++++++++ mm/slab_common.c | 16 +++++++--------- mm/slub.c | 16 +++++++++++----- 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/mm/slab.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slab.h 2012-05-23 06:54:33.934836948 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slab.h 2012-05-23 08:00:46.210754648 -0500 @@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ extern struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache; struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)); +#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB +struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, + size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)); +#else +static inline struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, + size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)) +{ return NULL; } +#endif + + int __kmem_cache_shutdown(struct kmem_cache *); #endif Index: linux-2.6/mm/slab_common.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slab_common.c 2012-05-23 06:54:33.954836948 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slab_common.c 2012-05-23 07:59:58.346755634 -0500 @@ -98,21 +98,19 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(con WARN_ON(strchr(name, ' ')); /* It confuses parsers */ #endif + s = __kmem_cache_alias(name, size, align, flags, ctor); + if (s) + goto oops; + n = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); if (!n) goto oops; s = __kmem_cache_create(n, size, align, flags, ctor); - if (s) { - /* - * Check if the slab has actually been created and if it was a - * real instatiation. Aliases do not belong on the list - */ - if (s->refcount == 1) - list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches); - - } else + if (s) + list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches); + else kfree(n); oops: Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2012-05-23 06:54:33.922836951 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2012-05-23 07:59:58.290755636 -0500 @@ -3890,11 +3890,10 @@ static struct kmem_cache *find_mergeable return NULL; } -struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, +struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)) { struct kmem_cache *s; - char *n; s = find_mergeable(size, align, flags, name, ctor); if (s) { @@ -3908,14 +3907,21 @@ struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_create(c if (sysfs_slab_alias(s, name)) { s->refcount--; - return NULL; + s = NULL; } - return s; } + return s; +} + +struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, + size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)) +{ + struct kmem_cache *s; + s = kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (s) { - if (kmem_cache_open(s, n, + if (kmem_cache_open(s, name, size, align, flags, ctor)) { int r; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>