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1 files changed, 131 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index 1a99b80480d..e209c98c720 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/mempool.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
@@ -27,7 +28,15 @@ static void *remove_element(mempool_t *pool)
return pool->elements[--pool->curr_nr];
}
-static void free_pool(mempool_t *pool)
+/**
+ * mempool_destroy - deallocate a memory pool
+ * @pool: pointer to the memory pool which was allocated via
+ * mempool_create().
+ *
+ * Free all reserved elements in @pool and @pool itself. This function
+ * only sleeps if the free_fn() function sleeps.
+ */
+void mempool_destroy(mempool_t *pool)
{
while (pool->curr_nr) {
void *element = remove_element(pool);
@@ -36,6 +45,7 @@ static void free_pool(mempool_t *pool)
kfree(pool->elements);
kfree(pool);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_destroy);
/**
* mempool_create - create a memory pool
@@ -46,28 +56,29 @@ static void free_pool(mempool_t *pool)
* @pool_data: optional private data available to the user-defined functions.
*
* this function creates and allocates a guaranteed size, preallocated
- * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc and mempool_free
+ * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc() and mempool_free()
* functions. This function might sleep. Both the alloc_fn() and the free_fn()
- * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc function is not called
+ * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc() function is not called
* from IRQ contexts.
*/
mempool_t *mempool_create(int min_nr, mempool_alloc_t *alloc_fn,
mempool_free_t *free_fn, void *pool_data)
{
- return mempool_create_node(min_nr,alloc_fn,free_fn, pool_data,-1);
+ return mempool_create_node(min_nr,alloc_fn,free_fn, pool_data,
+ GFP_KERNEL, NUMA_NO_NODE);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_create);
mempool_t *mempool_create_node(int min_nr, mempool_alloc_t *alloc_fn,
- mempool_free_t *free_fn, void *pool_data, int node_id)
+ mempool_free_t *free_fn, void *pool_data,
+ gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id)
{
mempool_t *pool;
- pool = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*pool), GFP_KERNEL, node_id);
+ pool = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*pool), gfp_mask, node_id);
if (!pool)
return NULL;
- memset(pool, 0, sizeof(*pool));
pool->elements = kmalloc_node(min_nr * sizeof(void *),
- GFP_KERNEL, node_id);
+ gfp_mask, node_id);
if (!pool->elements) {
kfree(pool);
return NULL;
@@ -85,9 +96,9 @@ mempool_t *mempool_create_node(int min_nr, mempool_alloc_t *alloc_fn,
while (pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr) {
void *element;
- element = pool->alloc(GFP_KERNEL, pool->pool_data);
+ element = pool->alloc(gfp_mask, pool->pool_data);
if (unlikely(!element)) {
- free_pool(pool);
+ mempool_destroy(pool);
return NULL;
}
add_element(pool, element);
@@ -173,32 +184,16 @@ out:
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_resize);
/**
- * mempool_destroy - deallocate a memory pool
- * @pool: pointer to the memory pool which was allocated via
- * mempool_create().
- *
- * this function only sleeps if the free_fn() function sleeps. The caller
- * has to guarantee that all elements have been returned to the pool (ie:
- * freed) prior to calling mempool_destroy().
- */
-void mempool_destroy(mempool_t *pool)
-{
- if (pool->curr_nr != pool->min_nr)
- BUG(); /* There were outstanding elements */
- free_pool(pool);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_destroy);
-
-/**
* mempool_alloc - allocate an element from a specific memory pool
* @pool: pointer to the memory pool which was allocated via
* mempool_create().
* @gfp_mask: the usual allocation bitmask.
*
- * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn function sleeps or
+ * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn() function sleeps or
* returns NULL. Note that due to preallocation, this function
* *never* fails when called from process contexts. (it might
* fail if called from an IRQ context.)
+ * Note: using __GFP_ZERO is not supported.
*/
void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *pool, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
@@ -207,6 +202,7 @@ void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *pool, gfp_t gfp_mask)
wait_queue_t wait;
gfp_t gfp_temp;
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_ZERO);
might_sleep_if(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT);
gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC; /* don't allocate emergency reserves */
@@ -225,23 +221,45 @@ repeat_alloc:
if (likely(pool->curr_nr)) {
element = remove_element(pool);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
+ /* paired with rmb in mempool_free(), read comment there */
+ smp_wmb();
+ /*
+ * Update the allocation stack trace as this is more useful
+ * for debugging.
+ */
+ kmemleak_update_trace(element);
return element;
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
- /* We must not sleep in the GFP_ATOMIC case */
- if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
+ /*
+ * We use gfp mask w/o __GFP_WAIT or IO for the first round. If
+ * alloc failed with that and @pool was empty, retry immediately.
+ */
+ if (gfp_temp != gfp_mask) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
+ gfp_temp = gfp_mask;
+ goto repeat_alloc;
+ }
+
+ /* We must not sleep if !__GFP_WAIT */
+ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
return NULL;
+ }
- /* Now start performing page reclaim */
- gfp_temp = gfp_mask;
+ /* Let's wait for someone else to return an element to @pool */
init_wait(&wait);
prepare_to_wait(&pool->wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
- smp_mb();
- if (!pool->curr_nr)
- io_schedule();
- finish_wait(&pool->wait, &wait);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
+
+ /*
+ * FIXME: this should be io_schedule(). The timeout is there as a
+ * workaround for some DM problems in 2.6.18.
+ */
+ io_schedule_timeout(5*HZ);
+
+ finish_wait(&pool->wait, &wait);
goto repeat_alloc;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_alloc);
@@ -258,10 +276,45 @@ void mempool_free(void *element, mempool_t *pool)
{
unsigned long flags;
- smp_mb();
- if (pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr) {
+ if (unlikely(element == NULL))
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * Paired with the wmb in mempool_alloc(). The preceding read is
+ * for @element and the following @pool->curr_nr. This ensures
+ * that the visible value of @pool->curr_nr is from after the
+ * allocation of @element. This is necessary for fringe cases
+ * where @element was passed to this task without going through
+ * barriers.
+ *
+ * For example, assume @p is %NULL at the beginning and one task
+ * performs "p = mempool_alloc(...);" while another task is doing
+ * "while (!p) cpu_relax(); mempool_free(p, ...);". This function
+ * may end up using curr_nr value which is from before allocation
+ * of @p without the following rmb.
+ */
+ smp_rmb();
+
+ /*
+ * For correctness, we need a test which is guaranteed to trigger
+ * if curr_nr + #allocated == min_nr. Testing curr_nr < min_nr
+ * without locking achieves that and refilling as soon as possible
+ * is desirable.
+ *
+ * Because curr_nr visible here is always a value after the
+ * allocation of @element, any task which decremented curr_nr below
+ * min_nr is guaranteed to see curr_nr < min_nr unless curr_nr gets
+ * incremented to min_nr afterwards. If curr_nr gets incremented
+ * to min_nr after the allocation of @element, the elements
+ * allocated after that are subject to the same guarantee.
+ *
+ * Waiters happen iff curr_nr is 0 and the above guarantee also
+ * ensures that there will be frees which return elements to the
+ * pool waking up the waiters.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr)) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
- if (pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr) {
+ if (likely(pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr)) {
add_element(pool, element);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
wake_up(&pool->wait);
@@ -278,14 +331,49 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free);
*/
void *mempool_alloc_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
{
- kmem_cache_t *mem = (kmem_cache_t *) pool_data;
+ struct kmem_cache *mem = pool_data;
return kmem_cache_alloc(mem, gfp_mask);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_alloc_slab);
void mempool_free_slab(void *element, void *pool_data)
{
- kmem_cache_t *mem = (kmem_cache_t *) pool_data;
+ struct kmem_cache *mem = pool_data;
kmem_cache_free(mem, element);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_slab);
+
+/*
+ * A commonly used alloc and free fn that kmalloc/kfrees the amount of memory
+ * specified by pool_data
+ */
+void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
+{
+ size_t size = (size_t)pool_data;
+ return kmalloc(size, gfp_mask);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kmalloc);
+
+void mempool_kfree(void *element, void *pool_data)
+{
+ kfree(element);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kfree);
+
+/*
+ * A simple mempool-backed page allocator that allocates pages
+ * of the order specified by pool_data.
+ */
+void *mempool_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
+{
+ int order = (int)(long)pool_data;
+ return alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_alloc_pages);
+
+void mempool_free_pages(void *element, void *pool_data)
+{
+ int order = (int)(long)pool_data;
+ __free_pages(element, order);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_pages);