Add a function that operates on the second doubleword in the page struct and manipulates the object counters, the freelist and the frozen attribute. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- include/linux/slub_def.h | 1 + mm/slub.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2011-05-16 11:46:33.591463082 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2011-05-16 11:46:51.181463060 -0500 @@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ static inline int kmem_cache_debug(struc /* Enable to test recovery from slab corruption on boot */ #undef SLUB_RESILIENCY_TEST +/* Enable to log cmpxchg failures */ +#undef SLUB_DEBUG_CMPXCHG + /* * Mininum number of partial slabs. These will be left on the partial * lists even if they are empty. kmem_cache_shrink may reclaim them. @@ -170,6 +173,7 @@ static inline int kmem_cache_debug(struc /* Internal SLUB flags */ #define __OBJECT_POISON 0x80000000UL /* Poison object */ +#define __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE 0x40000000UL /* Use cmpxchg_double */ static int kmem_size = sizeof(struct kmem_cache); @@ -354,6 +358,37 @@ static void get_map(struct kmem_cache *s set_bit(slab_index(p, s, addr), map); } +static inline bool cmpxchg_double_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, + void *freelist_old, unsigned long counters_old, + void *freelist_new, unsigned long counters_new, + const char *n) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE + if (s->flags & __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE) { + if (cmpxchg_double(&page->freelist, + freelist_old, counters_old, + freelist_new, counters_new)) + return 1; + } else +#endif + { + if (page->freelist == freelist_old && page->counters == counters_old) { + page->freelist = freelist_new; + page->counters = counters_new; + return 1; + } + } + + cpu_relax(); + stat(s, CMPXCHG_DOUBLE_FAIL); + +#ifdef SLUB_DEBUG_CMPXCHG + printk(KERN_INFO "%s %s: cmpxchg double redo ", n, s->name); +#endif + + return 0; +} + /* * Debug settings: */ @@ -2596,6 +2631,12 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_c } } +#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE + if (system_has_cmpxchg_double() && (s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_FLAGS) == 0) + /* Enable fast mode */ + s->flags |= __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE; +#endif + /* * The larger the object size is, the more pages we want on the partial * list to avoid pounding the page allocator excessively. @@ -4493,6 +4534,8 @@ STAT_ATTR(DEACTIVATE_TO_HEAD, deactivate STAT_ATTR(DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL, deactivate_to_tail); STAT_ATTR(DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREES, deactivate_remote_frees); STAT_ATTR(ORDER_FALLBACK, order_fallback); +STAT_ATTR(CMPXCHG_DOUBLE_CPU_FAIL, cmpxchg_double_cpu_fail); +STAT_ATTR(CMPXCHG_DOUBLE_FAIL, cmpxchg_double_fail); #endif static struct attribute *slab_attrs[] = { @@ -4550,6 +4593,8 @@ static struct attribute *slab_attrs[] = &deactivate_to_tail_attr.attr, &deactivate_remote_frees_attr.attr, &order_fallback_attr.attr, + &cmpxchg_double_fail_attr.attr, + &cmpxchg_double_cpu_fail_attr.attr, #endif #ifdef CONFIG_FAILSLAB &failslab_attr.attr, Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/slub_def.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/slub_def.h 2011-05-16 11:40:35.371463499 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/slub_def.h 2011-05-16 11:46:51.181463060 -0500 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ enum stat_item { DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREES,/* Slab contained remotely freed objects */ ORDER_FALLBACK, /* Number of times fallback was necessary */ CMPXCHG_DOUBLE_CPU_FAIL,/* Failure of this_cpu_cmpxchg_double */ + CMPXCHG_DOUBLE_FAIL, /* Number of times that cmpxchg double did not match */ NR_SLUB_STAT_ITEMS }; struct kmem_cache_cpu { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/