mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation

If DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC are enabled spinlock_t on x86_64 is
72 bytes.  For page->ptl they will be allocated from kmalloc-96 slab, so
we loose 24 on each.  An average system can easily allocate few tens
thousands of page->ptl and overhead is significant.

Let's create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation to solve this.

To make sure that it really works this time, some numbers from my test
machine (just booted, no load):

Before:
  # grep '^\(kmalloc-96\|page->ptl\)' /proc/slabinfo
  kmalloc-96         31987  32190    128   30    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata   1073   1073     92
After:
  # grep '^\(kmalloc-96\|page->ptl\)' /proc/slabinfo
  page->ptl          27516  28143     72   53    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    531    531      9
  kmalloc-96          3853   5280    128   30    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    176    176      0

Note that the patch is useful not only for debug case, but also for
PREEMPT_RT, where spinlock_t is always bloated.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index febc511e078a..01573fdfa186 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ static void __init mm_init(void)
 	mem_init();
 	kmem_cache_init();
 	percpu_init_late();
-	pgtable_cache_init();
+	pgtable_init();
 	vmalloc_init();
 }