The patch titled Subject: mm/slub: move slab initialization into irq enabled region has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-slub-move-slab-initialization-into-irq-enabled-region.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slub-move-slab-initialization-into-irq-enabled-region.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slub-move-slab-initialization-into-irq-enabled-region.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slub: move slab initialization into irq enabled region Initializing a new slab can introduce rather large latencies because most of the initialization runs always with interrupts disabled. There is no point in doing so. The newly allocated slab is not visible yet, so there is no reason to protect it against concurrent alloc/free. Move the expensive parts of the initialization into allocate_slab(), so for all allocations with GFP_WAIT set, interrupts are enabled. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/slub.c~mm-slub-move-slab-initialization-into-irq-enabled-region mm/slub.c --- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-move-slab-initialization-into-irq-enabled-region +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -1306,6 +1306,17 @@ static inline void slab_free_hook(struct kasan_slab_free(s, x); } +static void setup_object(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, + void *object) +{ + setup_object_debug(s, page, object); + if (unlikely(s->ctor)) { + kasan_unpoison_object_data(s, object); + s->ctor(object); + kasan_poison_object_data(s, object); + } +} + /* * Slab allocation and freeing */ @@ -1336,6 +1347,8 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct struct page *page; struct kmem_cache_order_objects oo = s->oo; gfp_t alloc_gfp; + void *start, *p; + int idx, order; flags &= gfp_allowed_mask; @@ -1359,13 +1372,13 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct * Try a lower order alloc if possible */ page = alloc_slab_page(s, alloc_gfp, node, oo); - - if (page) - stat(s, ORDER_FALLBACK); + if (unlikely(!page)) + goto out; + stat(s, ORDER_FALLBACK); } - if (kmemcheck_enabled && page - && !(s->flags & (SLAB_NOTRACK | DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS))) { + if (kmemcheck_enabled && + !(s->flags & (SLAB_NOTRACK | DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS))) { int pages = 1 << oo_order(oo); kmemcheck_alloc_shadow(page, oo_order(oo), alloc_gfp, node); @@ -1380,51 +1393,9 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmemcheck_mark_unallocated_pages(page, pages); } - if (flags & __GFP_WAIT) - local_irq_disable(); - if (!page) - return NULL; - page->objects = oo_objects(oo); - mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(page), - (s->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT) ? - NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE : NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE, - 1 << oo_order(oo)); - - return page; -} - -static void setup_object(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, - void *object) -{ - setup_object_debug(s, page, object); - if (unlikely(s->ctor)) { - kasan_unpoison_object_data(s, object); - s->ctor(object); - kasan_poison_object_data(s, object); - } -} - -static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node) -{ - struct page *page; - void *start; - void *p; - int order; - int idx; - - if (unlikely(flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK)) { - pr_emerg("gfp: %u\n", flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK); - BUG(); - } - - page = allocate_slab(s, - flags & (GFP_RECLAIM_MASK | GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK), node); - if (!page) - goto out; order = compound_order(page); - inc_slabs_node(s, page_to_nid(page), page->objects); page->slab_cache = s; __SetPageSlab(page); if (page->pfmemalloc) @@ -1448,10 +1419,34 @@ static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem page->freelist = start; page->inuse = page->objects; page->frozen = 1; + out: + if (flags & __GFP_WAIT) + local_irq_disable(); + if (!page) + return NULL; + + mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(page), + (s->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT) ? + NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE : NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE, + 1 << oo_order(oo)); + + inc_slabs_node(s, page_to_nid(page), page->objects); + return page; } +static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node) +{ + if (unlikely(flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK)) { + pr_emerg("gfp: %u\n", flags & GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK); + BUG(); + } + + return allocate_slab(s, + flags & (GFP_RECLAIM_MASK | GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK), node); +} + static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page) { int order = compound_order(page); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-slub-move-slab-initialization-into-irq-enabled-region.patch mm-memcontrol-bring-back-the-vm_bug_on-in-mem_cgroup_swapout.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html