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authorChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>2015-09-04 15:45:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-04 16:54:41 -0700
commit484748f0b65a1950b2b93f444a2287e8dd2cedd6 (patch)
treef7064d3e5cf25ba0a20fed59004797d7001418a5 /mm/slab.h
parent2ae44005b678431a5c7a55dafcd09421ba3fadf0 (diff)
downloadlinux-484748f0b65a1950b2b93f444a2287e8dd2cedd6.tar.bz2
slab: infrastructure for bulk object allocation and freeing
Add the basic infrastructure for alloc/free operations on pointer arrays. It includes a generic function in the common slab code that is used in this infrastructure patch to create the unoptimized functionality for slab bulk operations. Allocators can then provide optimized allocation functions for situations in which large numbers of objects are needed. These optimization may avoid taking locks repeatedly and bypass metadata creation if all objects in slab pages can be used to provide the objects required. Allocators can extend the skeletons provided and add their own code to the bulk alloc and free functions. They can keep the generic allocation and freeing and just fall back to those if optimizations would not work (like for example when debugging is on). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.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>
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diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 8da63e4e470f..88b55497738c 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -163,6 +163,15 @@ void slabinfo_show_stats(struct seq_file *m, struct kmem_cache *s);
ssize_t slabinfo_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos);
+/*
+ * Generic implementation of bulk operations
+ * These are useful for situations in which the allocator cannot
+ * perform optimizations. In that case segments of the objecct listed
+ * may be allocated or freed using these operations.
+ */
+void __kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *, size_t, void **);
+bool __kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t, size_t, void **);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
/*
* Iterate over all memcg caches of the given root cache. The caller must hold