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| author | Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> | 2016-01-14 15:18:15 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -0800 |
| commit | 230e9fc2860450fbb1f33bdcf9093d92d7d91f5b (patch) | |
| tree | d0cb29d821cc5c3ca49066f0ca5d9149066b157f /mm/slab_common.c | |
| parent | a9bb7e620efdfd29b6d1c238041173e411670996 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-230e9fc2860450fbb1f33bdcf9093d92d7d91f5b.tar.gz lwn-230e9fc2860450fbb1f33bdcf9093d92d7d91f5b.zip | |
slab: add SLAB_ACCOUNT flag
Currently, if we want to account all objects of a particular kmem cache,
we have to pass __GFP_ACCOUNT to each kmem_cache_alloc call, which is
inconvenient. This patch introduces SLAB_ACCOUNT flag which if passed
to kmem_cache_create will force accounting for every allocation from
this cache even if __GFP_ACCOUNT is not passed.
This patch does not make any of the existing caches use this flag - it
will be done later in the series.
Note, a cache with SLAB_ACCOUNT cannot be merged with a cache w/o
SLAB_ACCOUNT, because merged caches share the same kmem_cache struct and
hence cannot have different sets of SLAB_* flags. Thus using this flag
will probably reduce the number of merged slabs even if kmem accounting
is not used (only compiled in).
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: 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.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index 3c6a86b4ec25..e016178063e1 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache; SLAB_TRACE | SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU | SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE | \ SLAB_FAILSLAB) -#define SLAB_MERGE_SAME (SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_CACHE_DMA | SLAB_NOTRACK) +#define SLAB_MERGE_SAME (SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_CACHE_DMA | \ + SLAB_NOTRACK | SLAB_ACCOUNT) /* * Merge control. If this is set then no merging of slab caches will occur. |