This patch improves mapping performance in zsmalloc by getting
usage information from the user in the form of a "mapping mode"
and using it to avoid unnecessary copying for objects that span
pages.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add information on the usage limits of zs_map_object()
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Improve zs_unmap_object() performance by adding a fast path for
objects that don't span pages.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch replaces the page table assisted object mapping
method, which has x86 dependencies, with a arch-independent
method that does a simple copy into a temporary per-cpu
buffer.
While a copy seems like it would be worse than mapping the pages,
tests demonstrate the copying is always faster and, in the case of
running inside a KVM guest, roughly 4x faster.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ZSMALLOC is tristate, but the code has no MODULE_LICENSE and since it
depends on GPL-only symbols it cannot be loaded as a module. This in
turn breaks zram which now depends on it. I assume it's meant to be
Dual BSD/GPL like the other z-stuff.
There is also no module_exit, which will make it impossible to unload.
Add the appropriate module_init and module_exit declarations suggested
by comments.
Reported-by: Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net>
References: http://bugs.debian.org/677273
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes an uninitialized variable warning in
alloc_zspage(). It also fixes the secondary issue of
prev_page leaving scope on each loop iteration. The only
reason this ever worked was because prev_page was occupying
the same space on the stack on each iteration.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation of various struct page fields
used by zsmalloc.
Changes for v2:
- Regroup descriptions as suggested by Konrad
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We should use unsigned long as handle instead of void * to avoid any
confusion. Without this, users may just treat zs_malloc return value as
a pointer and try to deference it.
This patch passed compile test(zram, zcache and ramster) and zram is
tested on qemu.
changelog
* from v2
- remove hval pointed out by Nitin
- based on next-20120607
* from v1
- change zcache's zv_create return value
- baesd on next-20120604
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
zspage_order defines how many pages are needed to make a zspage.
So _order_ is rather awkward naming. It already deceive Jonathan
- http://lwn.net/Articles/477067/
" For each size, the code calculates an optimum number of pages (up to 16)"
Let's change from _order_ to _pages_ and some function names.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes a memory leak in zsmalloc where the first
subpage of each zspage is leaked when the zspage is freed.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch ensures that the value of ZS_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE, for the
PAGE_SIZE and MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS on the system, allows for all
possible object ids in the lowest storage class to be encoded
in the object handle.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch provides a way to determine or "set a
reasonable value for" MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS in the case that
it is not defined (i.e. !SPARSEMEM)
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch moves where max_zspage_order is declared and
changes its meaning. "Order" typically implies 2^order
of something; however, it is currently being used as the
"maximum number of single pages in a zspage". To add clarity,
ZS_MAX_ZSPAGE_ORDER is now used to calculate ZS_MAX_PAGES_PER_ZSPAGE,
which is 2^ZS_MAX_ZSPAGE_ORDER and is the upper bound on the number
of pages in a zspage.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch moves the definitions of _PFN_BITS, OBJ_INDEX_BITS
and OBJ_INDEX_MASK from zsmalloc-main.c to zsmalloc_int.h
They will be needed to determine ZS_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE in the next
patch
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
linux/vmalloc.h added to zsmalloc-main.c to resolve implicit
declaration errors.
X86 dependency added to zsmalloc and dependent drivers zcache and zram.
This X86 only requirement is not ideal. Working to find portable
functions for __flush_tlb_one and set_pte.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch creates a new memory allocation library named
zsmalloc.
NOTE: zsmalloc currently depends on SPARSEMEM for the MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS
value needed to determine the format of the object handle. There may
be a better way to do this. Feedback is welcome.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
