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diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 5fb753da6cf..a8e76d79ee6 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -73,6 +73,34 @@ static inline int kmem_cache_sanity_check(const char *name, size_t size)
#endif
/*
+ * Figure out what the alignment of the objects will be given a set of
+ * flags, a user specified alignment and the size of the objects.
+ */
+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.
+ *
+ * The hardware cache alignment cannot override the specified
+ * alignment though. If that is greater then use it.
+ */
+ if (flags & SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN) {
+ unsigned long ralign = cache_line_size();
+ while (size <= ralign / 2)
+ ralign /= 2;
+ align = max(align, ralign);
+ }
+
+ if (align < ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN)
+ align = ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN;
+
+ return ALIGN(align, sizeof(void *));
+}
+
+
+/*
* kmem_cache_create - Create a cache.
* @name: A string which is used in /proc/slabinfo to identify this cache.
* @size: The size of objects to be created in this cache.
@@ -109,6 +137,13 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align
if (!kmem_cache_sanity_check(name, size) == 0)
goto out_locked;
+ /*
+ * Some allocators will constraint the set of valid flags to a subset
+ * of all flags. We expect them to define CACHE_CREATE_MASK in this
+ * case, and we'll just provide them with a sanitized version of the
+ * passed flags.
+ */
+ flags &= CACHE_CREATE_MASK;
s = __kmem_cache_alias(name, size, align, flags, ctor);
if (s)
@@ -117,7 +152,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align
s = kmem_cache_zalloc(kmem_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (s) {
s->object_size = s->size = size;
- s->align = align;
+ s->align = calculate_alignment(flags, align, size);
s->ctor = ctor;
s->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!s->name) {
@@ -195,6 +230,42 @@ int slab_is_available(void)
return slab_state >= UP;
}
+#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
+/* Create a cache during boot when no slab services are available yet */
+void __init create_boot_cache(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *name, size_t size,
+ unsigned long flags)
+{
+ int err;
+
+ s->name = name;
+ s->size = s->object_size = size;
+ s->align = calculate_alignment(flags, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, size);
+ err = __kmem_cache_create(s, flags);
+
+ if (err)
+ panic("Creation of kmalloc slab %s size=%zd failed. Reason %d\n",
+ name, size, err);
+
+ s->refcount = -1; /* Exempt from merging for now */
+}
+
+struct kmem_cache *__init create_kmalloc_cache(const char *name, size_t size,
+ unsigned long flags)
+{
+ struct kmem_cache *s = kmem_cache_zalloc(kmem_cache, GFP_NOWAIT);
+
+ if (!s)
+ panic("Out of memory when creating slab %s\n", name);
+
+ create_boot_cache(s, name, size, flags);
+ list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches);
+ s->refcount = 1;
+ return s;
+}
+
+#endif /* !CONFIG_SLOB */
+
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SLABINFO
static void print_slabinfo_header(struct seq_file *m)
{