kernel.git/mm/slub.c, branch linux-2.6.34.y

slub: move kmem_cache_node into it's own cacheline

2010-07-05T18:22:37Z

commit 73367bd8eef4f4eb311005886aaa916013073265 upstream. This patch is meant to improve the performance of SLUB by moving the local kmem_cache_node lock into it's own cacheline separate from kmem_cache. This is accomplished by simply removing the local_node when NUMA is enabled. On my system with 2 nodes I saw around a 5% performance increase w/ hackbench times dropping from 6.2 seconds to 5.9 seconds on average. I suspect the performance gain would increase as the number of nodes increases, but I do not have the data to currently back that up. Bugzilla-Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15713 Reported-by: Alex Shi Tested-by: Alex Shi Acked-by: Yanmin Zhang Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

slub: Fix bad boundary check in init_kmem_cache_nodes()

2010-05-05T18:12:19Z

Function init_kmem_cache_nodes is incorrect when checking upper limitation of kmalloc_caches. The breakage was introduced by commit 91efd773c74bb26b5409c85ad755d536448e229c ("dma kmalloc handling fixes"). Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slub: Fix kmem_ptr_validate() for non-kernel pointers

2010-04-09T17:09:50Z

As suggested by Linus, fix up kmem_ptr_validate() to handle non-kernel pointers more graciously. The patch changes kmem_ptr_validate() to use the newly introduced kern_ptr_validate() helper to check that a pointer is a valid kernel pointer before we attempt to convert it into a 'struct page'. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2010-03-13T00:04:50Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits) doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog doc: fix console doc typo doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm" tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code drm/kms: fix spelling in error message doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/ Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments ... Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX

Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus

2010-03-08T15:55:37Z

Conflicts: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c drivers/net/typhoon.c

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

2010-03-08T01:04:49Z

Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy Acked-by: David Teigland Acked-by: Matt Domsch Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski Acked-by: Hans J. Koch Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_ops

2010-03-08T01:04:49Z

Constify struct kset_uevent_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

SLUB: Fix per-cpu merge conflict

2010-03-04T10:09:43Z

The slab tree adds a percpu variable usage case (commit 9dfc6e68bfe6ee452efb1a4e9ca26a9007f2b864 "SLUB: Use this_cpu operations in slub"), but the percpu tree removes the prefixing of percpu variables (commit dd17c8f72993f9461e9c19250e3f155d6d99df22 "percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix"), thus causing the following compilation error: CC mm/slub.o mm/slub.c: In function ‘alloc_kmem_cache_cpus’: mm/slub.c:2078: error: implicit declaration of function ‘per_cpu_var’ mm/slub.c:2078: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast make[1]: *** [mm/slub.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

Merge branches 'slab/cleanups', 'slab/failslab', 'slab/fixes' and 'slub/percpu' into slab-for-linus

2010-03-04T10:07:50Z

failslab: add ability to filter slab caches

2010-02-26T17:19:39Z

This patch allow to inject faults only for specific slabs. In order to preserve default behavior cache filter is off by default (all caches are faulty). One may define specific set of slabs like this: # mark skbuff_head_cache as faulty echo 1 > /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_head_cache/failslab # Turn on cache filter (off by default) echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/cache-filter # Turn on fault injection echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/times echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/probability Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Akinobu Mita Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg