Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (slabtree related)

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, David Rientjes wrote:

> > +	 * Special hack for UP mode. allocpercpu() falls back to kmalloc
> > +	 * operations. So we cannot use that before the slab allocator is up
> > +	 * Simply get the smallest possible compound page. The page will be
> > +	 * released via kfree() when the cpu caches are resized later.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (slab_state < UP)
> > +		s->cpu_slab = (__percpu void *)__get_free_page(GFP_NOWAIT, 1);
>
> __get_free_pages() takes an order argument.

Right. Patch not refreshed after the last tinzy winzy change. Seems that I
got a bit rusty.

Subject: Slub: UP bandaid

Since the percpu allocator does not provide early allocation in UP
mode (only in SMP configurations) use __get_free_page() to improvise
a compound page allocation that can be later freed via kfree().

Compound pages will be released when the cpu caches are resized.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>



---
 mm/slub.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c	2010-08-25 09:00:59.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c	2010-08-25 10:59:30.000000000 -0500
@@ -2091,8 +2091,24 @@ init_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache_n

 static inline int alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	/*
+	 * Will use reserve that does not require slab operation during
+	 * early boot.
+	 */
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE <
 			SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT * sizeof(struct kmem_cache_cpu));
+#else
+	/*
+	 * Special hack for UP mode. allocpercpu() falls back to kmalloc
+	 * operations. So we cannot use that before the slab allocator is up
+	 * Simply get the smallest possible compound page. The page will be
+	 * released via kfree() when the cpu caches are resized later.
+	 */
+	if (slab_state < UP)
+		s->cpu_slab = (__percpu void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT, 1);
+	else
+#endif

 	s->cpu_slab = alloc_percpu(struct kmem_cache_cpu);

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