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

This reverts commit ea1e7ed33708c7a760419ff9ded0a6cb90586a50.

Al points out that while the commit *does* actually create a separate
slab for the page->ptl allocation, that slab is never actually used, and
the code continues to use kmalloc/kfree.

Damien Wyart points out that the original patch did have the conversion
to use kmem_cache_alloc/free, so it got lost somewhere on its way to me.

Revert the half-arsed attempt that didn't do anything.  If we really do
want the special slab (remember: this is all relevant just for debug
builds, so it's not necessarily all that critical) we might as well redo
the patch fully.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kirill A Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 0409e8f43fa..5d9025f3b3e 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4272,13 +4272,6 @@ void copy_user_huge_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src,
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE || CONFIG_HUGETLBFS */
 
 #if USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS && BLOATED_SPINLOCKS
-static struct kmem_cache *page_ptl_cachep;
-void __init ptlock_cache_init(void)
-{
-	page_ptl_cachep = kmem_cache_create("page->ptl", sizeof(spinlock_t), 0,
-			SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
-}
-
 bool ptlock_alloc(struct page *page)
 {
 	spinlock_t *ptl;