kernel/include/linux/slub_def.h, branch linux-2.6.31.y

kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub

2009-07-08T13:25:14Z

The kmalloc_large() and kmalloc_large_node() functions were missed when adding the kmemleak hooks to the slub allocator. However, they should be traced to avoid false positives. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Pekka Enberg

slab,slub: don't enable interrupts during early boot

2009-06-12T15:53:33Z

As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt: Oh and btw, your patch alone doesn't fix powerpc, because it's missing a whole bunch of GFP_KERNEL's in the arch code... You would have to grep the entire kernel for things that check slab_is_available() and even then you'll be missing some. For example, slab_is_available() didn't always exist, and so in the early days on powerpc, we used a mem_init_done global that is set form mem_init() (not perfect but works in practice). And we still have code using that to do the test. Therefore, mask out __GFP_WAIT, __GFP_IO, and __GFP_FS in the slab allocators in early boot code to avoid enabling interrupts. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

tracing, kmemtrace: Separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h to kmemtrace part and tracepoint part

2009-04-12T13:22:55Z

Impact: refactor code for future changes Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's tracepoints definition. Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have definition of tracepoint. We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files: include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace include/trace/kmem.h: definition of kmem tracepoints Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: <49DEE68A.5040902@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kmemtrace: use tracepoints

2009-04-03T10:23:06Z

kmemtrace now uses tracepoints instead of markers. We no longer need to use format specifiers to pass arguments. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu [ folded: Use the new TP_PROTO and TP_ARGS to fix the build. ] [ folded: fix build when CONFIG_KMEMTRACE is disabled. ] [ folded: define tracepoints when CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is enabled. ] Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus

2009-04-01T22:49:02Z

Conflicts: include/linux/slub_def.h lib/Kconfig.debug mm/slob.c mm/slub.c

Merge branches 'topic/slob/cleanups', 'topic/slob/fixes', 'topic/slub/core', 'topic/slub/cleanups' and 'topic/slub/perf' into for-linus

2009-03-24T08:25:21Z

slub: move min_partial to struct kmem_cache

2009-02-23T10:05:41Z

Although it allows for better cacheline use, it is unnecessary to save a copy of the cache's min_partial value in each kmem_cache_node. Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

Merge branch 'for-ingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 into tracing/kmemtrace

2009-02-20T11:15:30Z

Conflicts: mm/slub.c

SLUB: Introduce and use SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT constants

2009-02-20T10:28:36Z

As a preparational patch to bump up page allocator pass-through threshold, introduce two new constants SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT and convert mm/slub.c to use them. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

SLUB: Do not pass 8k objects through to the page allocator

2009-02-20T10:25:47Z

Increase the maximum object size in SLUB so that 8k objects are not passed through to the page allocator anymore. The network stack uses 8k objects for performance critical operations. The patch is motivated by a SLAB vs. SLUB regression in the netperf benchmark. The problem is that the kfree(skb->head) call in skb_release_data() that is subject to page allocator pass-through as the size passed to __alloc_skb() is larger than 4 KB in this test. As explained by Yanmin Zhang: I use 2.6.29-rc2 kernel to run netperf UDP-U-4k CPU_NUM client/server pair loopback testing on x86-64 machines. Comparing with SLUB, SLAB's result is about 2.3 times of SLUB's. After applying the reverting patch, the result difference between SLUB and SLAB becomes 1% which we might consider as fluctuation. [ penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix oops in kmalloc() ] Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg