linux-kernel - Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:58:24 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	clameter@....com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: SLUB: The unqueued Slab allocator

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:00:30 -0800 (PST)

> +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
> +static struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_caches_dma[KMALLOC_NR_CACHES];
> +#endif

Therefore.

> +static struct kmem_cache *get_slab(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> +{
 ...
> +	s = kmalloc_caches_dma[index];
> +	if (s)
> +		return s;
> +
> +	/* Dynamically create dma cache */
> +	x = kmalloc(sizeof(struct kmem_cache), flags & ~(__GFP_DMA));
> +
> +	if (!x)
> +		panic("Unable to allocate memory for dma cache\n");
> +
> +#ifdef KMALLOC_EXTRA
> +	if (index <= KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH - KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW)
> +#endif
> +		realsize = 1 << index;
> +#ifdef KMALLOC_EXTRA
> +	else if (index == KMALLOC_EXTRAS)
> +		realsize = 96;
> +	else
> +		realsize = 192;
> +#endif
> +
> +	s = create_kmalloc_cache(x, "kmalloc_dma", realsize);
> +	kmalloc_caches_dma[index] = s;
> +	return s;
> +}

All of that logic needs to be protected by CONFIG_ZONE_DMA too.

I noticed this due to a build failure on sparc64 with this patch.
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