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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2016-05-19 17:10:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-19 19:12:14 -0700
commit76b342bdc71badea2cbac7bf6590aa86e895c507 (patch)
tree325db0807b58b03e598513a5243d350d7bb9b958 /include
parent511e3a05881221a7fc63e36f3d604887040fc845 (diff)
downloadlinux-76b342bdc71badea2cbac7bf6590aa86e895c507.tar.bz2
mm/slab: separate cache_grow() to two parts
This is a preparation step to implement lockless allocation path when there is no free objects in kmem_cache. What we'd like to do here is to refill cpu cache without holding a node lock. To accomplish this purpose, refill should be done after new slab allocation but before attaching the slab to the management list. So, this patch separates cache_grow() to two parts, allocation and attaching to the list in order to add some code inbetween them in the following patch. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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