linux-kernel - [PATCH] slab: Report caller of kzalloc() rather than kzalloc() itself.

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Date:	Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:21:21 +0900
From:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] slab: Report caller of kzalloc() rather than kzalloc() itself.

/proc/slab_allocators may report kzalloc() itself rather than caller of
kzalloc() if CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y .

  # grep zalloc /proc/slab_allocators | head
  scsi_cmd_cache: 2 kmem_cache_zalloc+0xb/0xd
  vm_area_struct: 355 kmem_cache_zalloc+0xb/0xd
  debug_objects_cache: 555 kmem_cache_zalloc+0xb/0xd
  size-2048: 3 kzalloc+0xb/0xd
  size-2048: 8 kzalloc+0xb/0xd
  size-2048: 1 kzalloc+0xb/0xd
  size-2048: 3 kzalloc+0xb/0xd
  size-2048: 2 kzalloc+0xb/0xd
  size-1024: 19 kzalloc+0xb/0xd
  size-1024: 1 kzalloc+0xb/0xd

This behavior is not helpful for finding allocators.
Report caller of kzalloc() rather than kzalloc() itself by changing
"inline" to "__always_inline".

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
---
 slab.h |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 4884462..907b277 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -305,7 +305,8 @@ extern void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller(size_t, gfp_t, int, unsigned long);
 /*
  * Shortcuts
  */
-static inline void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *k, gfp_t flags)
+static __always_inline void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *k,
+					       gfp_t flags)
 {
 	return kmem_cache_alloc(k, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
 }
@@ -315,7 +316,7 @@ static inline void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *k, gfp_t flags)
  * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
  * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
  */
-static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+static __always_inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 {
 	return kmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
 }
@@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
  * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
  * @node: memory node from which to allocate
  */
-static inline void *kzalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
+static __always_inline void *kzalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
 {
 	return kmalloc_node(size, flags | __GFP_ZERO, node);
 }
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