From 6446faa2ff30ca77c5b25e886bbbfb81c63f1c91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:45:26 -0800 Subject: slub: Fix up comments Provide comments and fix up various spelling / style issues. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- mm/slub.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 72f5f4ecd1d..10d546954ef 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache_cpu *get_cpu_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, int cpu) #endif } +/* Verify that a pointer has an address that is valid within a slab page */ static inline int check_valid_pointer(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, const void *object) { @@ -619,7 +620,7 @@ static int check_bytes_and_report(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, * A. Free pointer (if we cannot overwrite object on free) * B. Tracking data for SLAB_STORE_USER * C. Padding to reach required alignment boundary or at mininum - * one word if debuggin is on to be able to detect writes + * one word if debugging is on to be able to detect writes * before the word boundary. * * Padding is done using 0x5a (POISON_INUSE) @@ -1268,7 +1269,7 @@ static struct page *get_any_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags) * may return off node objects because partial slabs are obtained * from other nodes and filled up. * - * If /sys/slab/xx/defrag_ratio is set to 100 (which makes + * If /sys/kernel/slab/xx/defrag_ratio is set to 100 (which makes * defrag_ratio = 1000) then every (well almost) allocation will * first attempt to defrag slab caches on other nodes. This means * scanning over all nodes to look for partial slabs which may be @@ -1343,9 +1344,11 @@ static void unfreeze_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int tail) * Adding an empty slab to the partial slabs in order * to avoid page allocator overhead. This slab needs * to come after the other slabs with objects in - * order to fill them up. That way the size of the - * partial list stays small. kmem_cache_shrink can - * reclaim empty slabs from the partial list. + * so that the others get filled first. That way the + * size of the partial list stays small. + * + * kmem_cache_shrink can reclaim any empty slabs from the + * partial list. */ add_partial(n, page, 1); slab_unlock(page); @@ -1368,7 +1371,7 @@ static void deactivate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_cpu *c) if (c->freelist) stat(c, DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREES); /* - * Merge cpu freelist into freelist. Typically we get here + * Merge cpu freelist into slab freelist. Typically we get here * because both freelists are empty. So this is unlikely * to occur. */ @@ -1399,6 +1402,7 @@ static inline void flush_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_cpu *c) /* * Flush cpu slab. + * * Called from IPI handler with interrupts disabled. */ static inline void __flush_cpu_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, int cpu) @@ -1457,7 +1461,8 @@ static inline int node_match(struct kmem_cache_cpu *c, int node) * rest of the freelist to the lockless freelist. * * And if we were unable to get a new slab from the partial slab lists then - * we need to allocate a new slab. This is slowest path since we may sleep. + * we need to allocate a new slab. This is the slowest path since it involves + * a call to the page allocator and the setup of a new slab. */ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node, void *addr, struct kmem_cache_cpu *c) @@ -1471,7 +1476,9 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, slab_lock(c->page); if (unlikely(!node_match(c, node))) goto another_slab; + stat(c, ALLOC_REFILL); + load_freelist: object = c->page->freelist; if (unlikely(!object)) @@ -1616,6 +1623,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, if (unlikely(SlabDebug(page))) goto debug; + checks_ok: prior = object[offset] = page->freelist; page->freelist = object; @@ -1630,8 +1638,7 @@ checks_ok: goto slab_empty; /* - * Objects left in the slab. If it - * was not on the partial list before + * Objects left in the slab. If it was not on the partial list before * then add it. */ if (unlikely(!prior)) { @@ -1845,13 +1852,11 @@ static unsigned long calculate_alignment(unsigned long flags, unsigned long align, unsigned long size) { /* - * If the user wants hardware cache aligned objects then - * follow that suggestion if the object is sufficiently - * large. + * If the user wants hardware cache aligned objects then follow that + * suggestion if the object is sufficiently large. * - * The hardware cache alignment cannot override the - * specified alignment though. If that is greater - * then use it. + * The hardware cache alignment cannot override the specified + * alignment though. If that is greater then use it. */ if ((flags & SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN) && size > cache_line_size() / 2) @@ -2049,6 +2054,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache_node *early_kmem_cache_node_alloc(gfp_t gfpflags, #endif init_kmem_cache_node(n); atomic_long_inc(&n->nr_slabs); + /* * lockdep requires consistent irq usage for each lock * so even though there cannot be a race this early in @@ -2301,7 +2307,7 @@ int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *s, const void *object) /* * We could also check if the object is on the slabs freelist. * But this would be too expensive and it seems that the main - * purpose of kmem_ptr_valid is to check if the object belongs + * purpose of kmem_ptr_valid() is to check if the object belongs * to a certain slab. */ return 1; @@ -2913,7 +2919,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void) /* * Patch up the size_index table if we have strange large alignment * requirements for the kmalloc array. This is only the case for - * mips it seems. The standard arches will not generate any code here. + * MIPS it seems. The standard arches will not generate any code here. * * Largest permitted alignment is 256 bytes due to the way we * handle the index determination for the smaller caches. @@ -2942,7 +2948,6 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void) kmem_size = sizeof(struct kmem_cache); #endif - printk(KERN_INFO "SLUB: Genslabs=%d, HWalign=%d, Order=%d-%d, MinObjects=%d," " CPUs=%d, Nodes=%d\n", @@ -3039,12 +3044,15 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, */ for_each_online_cpu(cpu) get_cpu_slab(s, cpu)->objsize = s->objsize; + s->inuse = max_t(int, s->inuse, ALIGN(size, sizeof(void *))); up_write(&slub_lock); + if (sysfs_slab_alias(s, name)) goto err; return s; } + s = kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (s) { if (kmem_cache_open(s, GFP_KERNEL, name, @@ -3927,7 +3935,6 @@ SLAB_ATTR(remote_node_defrag_ratio); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_STATS - static int show_stat(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf, enum stat_item si) { unsigned long sum = 0; @@ -4111,8 +4118,8 @@ static struct kset *slab_kset; #define ID_STR_LENGTH 64 /* Create a unique string id for a slab cache: - * format - * :[flags-]size:[memory address of kmemcache] + * + * Format :[flags-]size */ static char *create_unique_id(struct kmem_cache *s) { -- cgit v1.2.3