Re: [RFC PATCH v1 05/15] mm/slub: move kmalloc_large_node() to slab_common.c

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 3/8/22 12:41, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> In later patch SLAB will also pass requests larger than order-1 page
> to page allocator. Move kmalloc_large_node() to slab_common.c.
> 
> Fold kmalloc_large_node_hook() into kmalloc_large_node() as there is
> no other caller.
> 
> Move tracepoint in kmalloc_large_node().
> 
> Add flag fix code. This exist in kmalloc_large() but omitted in
> kmalloc_large_node().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/slab.h |  3 +++
>  mm/slab_common.c     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/slub.c            | 47 ++++----------------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
> 

<snip>

>  
> @@ -4874,15 +4842,8 @@ void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags,
>  	struct kmem_cache *s;
>  	void *ret;
>  
> -	if (unlikely(size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)) {
> -		ret = kmalloc_large_node(size, gfpflags, node);
> -
> -		trace_kmalloc_node(caller, ret,
> -				   size, PAGE_SIZE << get_order(size),
> -				   gfpflags, node);

Hmm this throws away the caller for tracing, so looks like an unintended
functional change.

> -
> -		return ret;
> -	}
> +	if (unlikely(size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE))
> +		return kmalloc_large_node(size, gfpflags, node);
>  
>  	s = kmalloc_slab(size, gfpflags);
>