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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2012-01-12 17:17:27 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-12 20:13:03 -0800
commit43570fd2f47ba518145e9289f54cde3dba4c8b25 (patch)
tree67aa61c8b972f4b3af66cd89082222e77e06a4cb
parent0d259cf8190b9c446eefd5225ffcc3941e76a432 (diff)
mm,slub,x86: decouple size of struct page from CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
While implementing cmpxchg_double() on s390 I realized that we don't set CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL despite the fact that we have support for it. However setting that option will increase the size of struct page by eight bytes on 64 bit, which we certainly do not want. Also, it doesn't make sense that a present cpu feature should increase the size of struct page. Besides that it looks like the dependency to CMPXCHG_LOCAL is wrong and that it should depend on CMPXCHG_DOUBLE instead. This patch: If an architecture supports CMPXCHG_LOCAL this shouldn't result automatically in larger struct pages if the SLUB allocator is used. Instead introduce a new config option "HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE" which can be selected if a double word aligned struct page is required. Also update x86 Kconfig so that it should work as before. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/Kconfig8
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h9
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c6
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 2505740b81d..a2c5c077c32 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -185,4 +185,12 @@ config HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
config ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
bool
+config HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
+ bool
+ help
+ This makes sure that struct pages are double word aligned and that
+ e.g. the SLUB allocator can perform double word atomic operations
+ on a struct page for better performance. However selecting this
+ might increase the size of a struct page by a word.
+
source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index a150f4c35e9..5201a2c2723 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ config X86
select PERF_EVENTS
select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
select ANON_INODES
+ select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB && !M386
select HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK
select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 5b42f1b34eb..3cc3062b376 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -151,12 +151,11 @@ struct page {
#endif
}
/*
- * If another subsystem starts using the double word pairing for atomic
- * operations on struct page then it must change the #if to ensure
- * proper alignment of the page struct.
+ * The struct page can be forced to be double word aligned so that atomic ops
+ * on double words work. The SLUB allocator can make use of such a feature.
*/
-#if defined(CONFIG_SLUB) && defined(CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL)
- __attribute__((__aligned__(2*sizeof(unsigned long))))
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
+ __aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long))
#endif
;
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5d37b5e4414..72aa8413460 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ static inline bool __cmpxchg_double_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page
const char *n)
{
VM_BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
-#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
+#if defined(CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE) && defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE)
if (s->flags & __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE) {
if (cmpxchg_double(&page->freelist, &page->counters,
freelist_old, counters_old,
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ static inline bool cmpxchg_double_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
void *freelist_new, unsigned long counters_new,
const char *n)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
+#if defined(CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE) && defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE)
if (s->flags & __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE) {
if (cmpxchg_double(&page->freelist, &page->counters,
freelist_old, counters_old,
@@ -3014,7 +3014,7 @@ static int kmem_cache_open(struct kmem_cache *s,
}
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
+#if defined(CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE) && defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE)
if (system_has_cmpxchg_double() && (s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_FLAGS) == 0)
/* Enable fast mode */
s->flags |= __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE;