linux-toradex.git/include/linux/mempool.h, branch v4.13-rc4

include/linux: apply __malloc attribute

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

Attach the malloc attribute to a few allocation functions.  This helps
gcc generate better code by telling it that the return value doesn't
alias any existing pointers (which is even more valuable given the
pessimizations implied by -fno-strict-aliasing).

A simple example of what this allows gcc to do can be seen by looking at
the last part of drm_atomic_helper_plane_reset:

	plane->state = kzalloc(sizeof(*plane->state), GFP_KERNEL);

	if (plane->state) {
		plane->state->plane = plane;
		plane->state->rotation = BIT(DRM_ROTATE_0);
	}

which compiles to

    e8 99 bf d6 ff          callq  ffffffff8116d540 
    48 85 c0                test   %rax,%rax
    48 89 83 40 02 00 00    mov    %rax,0x240(%rbx)
    74 11                   je     ffffffff814015c4 
    48 89 18                mov    %rbx,(%rax)
    48 8b 83 40 02 00 00    mov    0x240(%rbx),%rax [*]
    c7 40 40 01 00 00 00    movl   $0x1,0x40(%rax)

With this patch applied, the instruction at [*] is elided, since the
store to plane->state->plane is known to not alter the value of
plane->state.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, mempool: disallow mempools based on slab caches with constructors

2015-04-15T23:35:18+00:00

All occurrences of mempools based on slab caches with object constructors
have been removed from the tree, so disallow creating them.

We can only dereference mem->ctor in mm/mempool.c without including
mm/slab.h in include/linux/mempool.h.  So simply note the restriction,
just like the comment restricting usage of __GFP_ZERO, and warn on kernels
with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM() if such a mempool is allocated from.

We don't want to incur this check on every element allocation, so use
VM_BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Sebastian Ott 
Cc: Mikulas Patocka 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing

2015-04-14T23:49:06+00:00

Allocating a large number of elements in atomic context could quickly
deplete memory reserves, so just disallow atomic resizing entirely.

Nothing currently uses mempool_resize() with anything other than
GFP_KERNEL, so convert existing callers to drop the gfp_mask.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Steffen Maier 	[zfcp]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Steve French 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mempool: add @gfp_mask to mempool_create_node()

2012-06-25T09:53:47+00:00

mempool_create_node() currently assumes %GFP_KERNEL.  Its only user,
blk_init_free_list(), is about to be updated to use other allocation
flags - add @gfp_mask argument to the function.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool

2009-09-22T14:17:35+00:00

The kzalloc mempool zeros items when they are initially allocated, but
does not rezero used items that are returned to the pool.  Consequently
mempool_alloc()s may return non-zeroed memory.

Since there are/were only two in-tree users for
mempool_create_kzalloc_pool(), and 'fixing' this in a way that will
re-zero used (but not new) items before first use is non-trivial, just
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mempool: add mempool_create_slab_pool()

2006-03-26T16:57:00+00:00

Create a simple wrapper function for the common case of creating a slab-based
mempool.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mempool: add kzalloc allocator

2006-03-26T16:56:59+00:00

Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kzalloc/kfree allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace a mempool-backed
kzalloc allocator.  It is also very likely that there will be more users in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mempool: add kmalloc allocator

2006-03-26T16:56:59+00:00

Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kmalloc/kfree allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed kmalloc allocators in several places in the kernel.  It is also
very likely that there will be more users in the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mempool: add page allocator

2006-03-26T16:56:59+00:00

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed page allocators in 2 places in the kernel.  It is also likely
that there will be more users in the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1

2005-10-08T22:00:57+00:00

 - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds