Re: [PATCH -mm 3/6] slub: introduce __kfree_rcu

[Pekka Enberg]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 21:44 +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> Introduce __kfree_rcu() for kfree_rcu()
> 
> It like __kfree_rcu() in slab.c.
> We can calculate the object poiter from a poiter inside this
> object in slub.c, so we can use it for rcu callback and free
> the object.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 0280eee..b438ec5 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2756,6 +2756,30 @@ void kfree(const void *x)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree);
>  
> +static void kfree_rcu_callback(struct rcu_head *rcu)
> +{
> +	void *portion = rcu;
> +	struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(portion);
> +
> +	if (unlikely(!PageSlab(page))) {
> +		BUG_ON(!PageCompound(page));

I'd prefer you did a WARN_ON() to increase the likelihood that people
will be able to copy-paste the oops for a bug report.

> +		put_page(page);
> +	} else {
> +		struct kmem_cache *s = page->slab;
> +		void *start = page_address(page);
> +		unsigned int index = (portion - start) / s->size;
> +		void *object = start + s->size * index;
> +

Again, I think the above would be more readable if you split the
variable initialization from the declaration.

> +		slab_free(s, page, object, _RET_IP_);
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +void __kfree_rcu(const void *x, struct rcu_head *rcu)
> +{
> +	call_rcu(rcu, kfree_rcu_callback);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfree_rcu);
> +
>  /*
>   * kmem_cache_shrink removes empty slabs from the partial lists and sorts
>   * the remaining slabs by the number of items in use. The slabs with the
> 
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