linux/include/linux/slab.h
Matt Mackall 10cef60295 [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator
configurable replacement for slab allocator

This adds a CONFIG_SLAB option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED.  When CONFIG_SLAB is
disabled, the kernel falls back to using the 'SLOB' allocator.

SLOB is a traditional K&R/UNIX allocator with a SLAB emulation layer,
similar to the original Linux kmalloc allocator that SLAB replaced.  It's
signicantly smaller code and is more memory efficient.  But like all
similar allocators, it scales poorly and suffers from fragmentation more
than SLAB, so it's only appropriate for small systems.

It's been tested extensively in the Linux-tiny tree.  I've also
stress-tested it with make -j 8 compiles on a 3G SMP+PREEMPT box (not
recommended).

Here's a comparison for otherwise identical builds, showing SLOB saving
nearly half a megabyte of RAM:

$ size vmlinux*
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3336372  529360  190812 4056544  3de5e0 vmlinux-slab
3323208  527948  190684 4041840  3dac70 vmlinux-slob

$ size mm/{slab,slob}.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  13221     752      48   14021    36c5 mm/slab.o
   1896      52       8    1956     7a4 mm/slob.o

/proc/meminfo:
                  SLAB          SLOB      delta
MemTotal:        27964 kB      27980 kB     +16 kB
MemFree:         24596 kB      25092 kB    +496 kB
Buffers:            36 kB         36 kB       0 kB
Cached:           1188 kB       1188 kB       0 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
Active:            608 kB        600 kB      -8 kB
Inactive:          808 kB        812 kB      +4 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
LowTotal:        27964 kB      27980 kB     +16 kB
LowFree:         24596 kB      25092 kB    +496 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
Dirty:               4 kB         12 kB      +8 kB
Writeback:           0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
Mapped:            560 kB        556 kB      -4 kB
Slab:             1756 kB          0 kB   -1756 kB
CommitLimit:     13980 kB      13988 kB      +8 kB
Committed_AS:     4208 kB       4208 kB       0 kB
PageTables:         28 kB         28 kB       0 kB
VmallocTotal:  1007312 kB    1007312 kB       0 kB
VmallocUsed:        48 kB         48 kB       0 kB
VmallocChunk:  1007264 kB    1007264 kB       0 kB

(this work has been sponsored in part by CELF)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

   Fix 32-bitness bugs in mm/slob.c.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00

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/*
* linux/mm/slab.h
* Written by Mark Hemment, 1996.
* (markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk)
*/
#ifndef _LINUX_SLAB_H
#define _LINUX_SLAB_H
#if defined(__KERNEL__)
typedef struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_t;
#include <linux/config.h> /* kmalloc_sizes.h needs CONFIG_ options */
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <asm/page.h> /* kmalloc_sizes.h needs PAGE_SIZE */
#include <asm/cache.h> /* kmalloc_sizes.h needs L1_CACHE_BYTES */
/* flags for kmem_cache_alloc() */
#define SLAB_NOFS GFP_NOFS
#define SLAB_NOIO GFP_NOIO
#define SLAB_ATOMIC GFP_ATOMIC
#define SLAB_USER GFP_USER
#define SLAB_KERNEL GFP_KERNEL
#define SLAB_DMA GFP_DMA
#define SLAB_LEVEL_MASK GFP_LEVEL_MASK
#define SLAB_NO_GROW __GFP_NO_GROW /* don't grow a cache */
/* flags to pass to kmem_cache_create().
* The first 3 are only valid when the allocator as been build
* SLAB_DEBUG_SUPPORT.
*/
#define SLAB_DEBUG_FREE 0x00000100UL /* Peform (expensive) checks on free */
#define SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL 0x00000200UL /* Call constructor (as verifier) */
#define SLAB_RED_ZONE 0x00000400UL /* Red zone objs in a cache */
#define SLAB_POISON 0x00000800UL /* Poison objects */
#define SLAB_NO_REAP 0x00001000UL /* never reap from the cache */
#define SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN 0x00002000UL /* align objs on a h/w cache lines */
#define SLAB_CACHE_DMA 0x00004000UL /* use GFP_DMA memory */
#define SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN 0x00008000UL /* force alignment */
#define SLAB_STORE_USER 0x00010000UL /* store the last owner for bug hunting */
#define SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT 0x00020000UL /* track pages allocated to indicate
what is reclaimable later*/
#define SLAB_PANIC 0x00040000UL /* panic if kmem_cache_create() fails */
#define SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* defer freeing pages to RCU */
/* flags passed to a constructor func */
#define SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR 0x001UL /* if not set, then deconstructor */
#define SLAB_CTOR_ATOMIC 0x002UL /* tell constructor it can't sleep */
#define SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY 0x004UL /* tell constructor it's a verify call */
#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
/* prototypes */
extern void __init kmem_cache_init(void);
extern kmem_cache_t *kmem_cache_create(const char *, size_t, size_t, unsigned long,
void (*)(void *, kmem_cache_t *, unsigned long),
void (*)(void *, kmem_cache_t *, unsigned long));
extern int kmem_cache_destroy(kmem_cache_t *);
extern int kmem_cache_shrink(kmem_cache_t *);
extern void *kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *, gfp_t);
extern void kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_t *, void *);
extern unsigned int kmem_cache_size(kmem_cache_t *);
extern const char *kmem_cache_name(kmem_cache_t *);
extern kmem_cache_t *kmem_find_general_cachep(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags);
/* Size description struct for general caches. */
struct cache_sizes {
size_t cs_size;
kmem_cache_t *cs_cachep;
kmem_cache_t *cs_dmacachep;
};
extern struct cache_sizes malloc_sizes[];
extern void *__kmalloc(size_t, gfp_t);
static inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
int i = 0;
#define CACHE(x) \
if (size <= x) \
goto found; \
else \
i++;
#include "kmalloc_sizes.h"
#undef CACHE
{
extern void __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much(void);
__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much();
}
found:
return kmem_cache_alloc((flags & GFP_DMA) ?
malloc_sizes[i].cs_dmacachep :
malloc_sizes[i].cs_cachep, flags);
}
return __kmalloc(size, flags);
}
extern void *kzalloc(size_t, gfp_t);
/**
* kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
* @n: number of elements.
* @size: element size.
* @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
*/
static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
if (n != 0 && size > INT_MAX / n)
return NULL;
return kzalloc(n * size, flags);
}
extern void kfree(const void *);
extern unsigned int ksize(const void *);
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
extern void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *, gfp_t flags, int node);
extern void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node);
#else
static inline void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, gfp_t flags, int node)
{
return kmem_cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
}
static inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
{
return kmalloc(size, flags);
}
#endif
extern int FASTCALL(kmem_cache_reap(int));
extern int FASTCALL(kmem_ptr_validate(kmem_cache_t *cachep, void *ptr));
#else /* CONFIG_SLOB */
/* SLOB allocator routines */
void kmem_cache_init(void);
struct kmem_cache *kmem_find_general_cachep(size_t, gfp_t gfpflags);
struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *c, size_t, size_t,
unsigned long,
void (*)(void *, struct kmem_cache *, unsigned long),
void (*)(void *, struct kmem_cache *, unsigned long));
int kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *c);
void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *c, gfp_t flags);
void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b);
const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
void kfree(const void *m);
unsigned int ksize(const void *m);
unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *c);
static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
return kzalloc(n * size, flags);
}
#define kmem_cache_shrink(d) (0)
#define kmem_cache_reap(a)
#define kmem_ptr_validate(a, b) (0)
#define kmem_cache_alloc_node(c, f, n) kmem_cache_alloc(c, f)
#define kmalloc_node(s, f, n) kmalloc(s, f)
#endif /* CONFIG_SLOB */
/* System wide caches */
extern kmem_cache_t *vm_area_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *names_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *files_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *filp_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *fs_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *signal_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *sighand_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *bio_cachep;
extern atomic_t slab_reclaim_pages;
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_SLAB_H */