mm/slab: separate cache_grow() to two parts
authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Fri, 20 May 2016 00:10:26 +0000 (17:10 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 20 May 2016 02:12:14 +0000 (19:12 -0700)
commit76b342bdc71badea2cbac7bf6590aa86e895c507
tree325db0807b58b03e598513a5243d350d7bb9b958
parent511e3a05881221a7fc63e36f3d604887040fc845
mm/slab: separate cache_grow() to two parts

This is a preparation step to implement lockless allocation path when
there is no free objects in kmem_cache.

What we'd like to do here is to refill cpu cache without holding a node
lock.  To accomplish this purpose, refill should be done after new slab
allocation but before attaching the slab to the management list.  So,
this patch separates cache_grow() to two parts, allocation and attaching
to the list in order to add some code inbetween them in the following
patch.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slab.c