From 865762a8119e74b5f0e236d2d8eaaf8be9292a06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:57:58 -0800 Subject: slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API Adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API before we have any real users. Adjust API to return type 'int' instead of previously type 'bool'. This is done to allow future extension of the bulk alloc API. A future extension could be to allow SLUB to stop at a page boundary, when specified by a flag, and then return the number of objects. The advantage of this approach, would make it easier to make bulk alloc run without local IRQs disabled. With an approach of cmpxchg "stealing" the entire c->freelist or page->freelist. To avoid overshooting we would stop processing at a slab-page boundary. Else we always end up returning some objects at the cost of another cmpxchg. To keep compatible with future users of this API linking against an older kernel when using the new flag, we need to return the number of allocated objects with this API change. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slub.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/slub.c') diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 34847044dfe5..46997517406e 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -2909,8 +2909,8 @@ void kmem_cache_free_bulk(struct kmem_cache *orig_s, size_t size, void **p) EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free_bulk); /* Note that interrupts must be enabled when calling this function. */ -bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size, - void **p) +int kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size, + void **p) { struct kmem_cache_cpu *c; int i; @@ -2959,12 +2959,12 @@ bool kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size, /* memcg and kmem_cache debug support */ slab_post_alloc_hook(s, flags, size, p); - return true; + return i; error: local_irq_enable(); slab_post_alloc_hook(s, flags, i, p); __kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, i, p); - return false; + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_bulk); -- cgit v1.2.3