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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/slub_def.h, branch v4.4.93</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mm: slub: share object_err function</title>
<updated>2015-02-14T05:21:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>a.ryabinin@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T22:39:35+00:00</published>
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Remove static and add function declarations to linux/slub_def.h so it
could be used by kernel address sanitizer.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yuri Gribov &lt;tetra2005@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Remove static and add function declarations to linux/slub_def.h so it
could be used by kernel address sanitizer.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yuri Gribov &lt;tetra2005@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: slub: introduce virt_to_obj function</title>
<updated>2015-02-14T05:21:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>a.ryabinin@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T22:39:31+00:00</published>
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virt_to_obj takes kmem_cache address, address of slab page, address x
pointing somewhere inside slab object, and returns address of the
beginning of object.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yuri Gribov &lt;tetra2005@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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virt_to_obj takes kmem_cache address, address of slab page, address x
pointing somewhere inside slab object, and returns address of the
beginning of object.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yuri Gribov &lt;tetra2005@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>slab: embed memcg_cache_params to kmem_cache</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:59:20+00:00</published>
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Currently, kmem_cache stores a pointer to struct memcg_cache_params
instead of embedding it.  The rationale is to save memory when kmem
accounting is disabled.  However, the memcg_cache_params has shrivelled
drastically since it was first introduced:

* Initially:

struct memcg_cache_params {
	bool is_root_cache;
	union {
		struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
		struct {
			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
			struct list_head list;
			struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
			bool dead;
			atomic_t nr_pages;
			struct work_struct destroy;
		};
	};
};

* Now:

struct memcg_cache_params {
	bool is_root_cache;
	union {
		struct {
			struct rcu_head rcu_head;
			struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
		};
		struct {
			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
			struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
		};
	};
};

So the memory saving does not seem to be a clear win anymore.

OTOH, keeping a pointer to memcg_cache_params struct instead of embedding
it results in touching one more cache line on kmem alloc/free hot paths.
Besides, it makes linking kmem caches in a list chained by a field of
struct memcg_cache_params really painful due to a level of indirection,
while I want to make them linked in the following patch.  That said, let
us embed it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, kmem_cache stores a pointer to struct memcg_cache_params
instead of embedding it.  The rationale is to save memory when kmem
accounting is disabled.  However, the memcg_cache_params has shrivelled
drastically since it was first introduced:

* Initially:

struct memcg_cache_params {
	bool is_root_cache;
	union {
		struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
		struct {
			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
			struct list_head list;
			struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
			bool dead;
			atomic_t nr_pages;
			struct work_struct destroy;
		};
	};
};

* Now:

struct memcg_cache_params {
	bool is_root_cache;
	union {
		struct {
			struct rcu_head rcu_head;
			struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
		};
		struct {
			struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
			struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
		};
	};
};

So the memory saving does not seem to be a clear win anymore.

OTOH, keeping a pointer to memcg_cache_params struct instead of embedding
it results in touching one more cache line on kmem alloc/free hot paths.
Besides, it makes linking kmem caches in a list chained by a field of
struct memcg_cache_params really painful due to a level of indirection,
while I want to make them linked in the following patch.  That said, let
us embed it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>slub: use sysfs'es release mechanism for kmem_cache</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T20:04:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-06T19:50:08+00:00</published>
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debugobjects warning during netfilter exit:

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 4178 at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x8d/0xb0()
    ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x20
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 6 PID: 4178 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Tainted: G        W 3.11.0-next-20130906-sasha #3984
    Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack+0x52/0x87
      warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
      warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
      debug_print_object+0x8d/0xb0
      __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0xa5/0x220
      debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x15/0x20
      kmem_cache_free+0x197/0x340
      kmem_cache_destroy+0x86/0xe0
      nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list+0x131/0x170
      nf_conntrack_pernet_exit+0x5d/0x70
      ops_exit_list+0x5e/0x70
      cleanup_net+0xfb/0x1c0
      process_one_work+0x338/0x550
      worker_thread+0x215/0x350
      kthread+0xe7/0xf0
      ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

Also during dcookie cleanup:

    WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 9725 at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0()
    ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x20
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 12 PID: 9725 Comm: trinity-c141 Not tainted 3.15.0-rc2-next-20140423-sasha-00018-gc4ff6c4 #408
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
      warn_slowpath_common (kernel/panic.c:430)
      warn_slowpath_fmt (kernel/panic.c:445)
      debug_print_object (lib/debugobjects.c:262)
      __debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:697)
      debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:726)
      kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:2689 mm/slub.c:2717)
      kmem_cache_destroy (mm/slab_common.c:363)
      dcookie_unregister (fs/dcookies.c:302 fs/dcookies.c:343)
      event_buffer_release (arch/x86/oprofile/../../../drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c:153)
      __fput (fs/file_table.c:217)
      ____fput (fs/file_table.c:253)
      task_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:125 (discriminator 1))
      do_notify_resume (include/linux/tracehook.h:196 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:751)
      int_signal (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:807)

Sysfs has a release mechanism.  Use that to release the kmem_cache
structure if CONFIG_SYSFS is enabled.

Only slub is changed - slab currently only supports /proc/slabinfo and
not /sys/kernel/slab/*.  We talked about adding that and someone was
working on it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SYSFS=n build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SYSFS=n build even more]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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debugobjects warning during netfilter exit:

    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 4178 at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x8d/0xb0()
    ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x20
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 6 PID: 4178 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Tainted: G        W 3.11.0-next-20130906-sasha #3984
    Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack+0x52/0x87
      warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
      warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
      debug_print_object+0x8d/0xb0
      __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0xa5/0x220
      debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x15/0x20
      kmem_cache_free+0x197/0x340
      kmem_cache_destroy+0x86/0xe0
      nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list+0x131/0x170
      nf_conntrack_pernet_exit+0x5d/0x70
      ops_exit_list+0x5e/0x70
      cleanup_net+0xfb/0x1c0
      process_one_work+0x338/0x550
      worker_thread+0x215/0x350
      kthread+0xe7/0xf0
      ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

Also during dcookie cleanup:

    WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 9725 at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x8c/0xb0()
    ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x20
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 12 PID: 9725 Comm: trinity-c141 Not tainted 3.15.0-rc2-next-20140423-sasha-00018-gc4ff6c4 #408
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
      warn_slowpath_common (kernel/panic.c:430)
      warn_slowpath_fmt (kernel/panic.c:445)
      debug_print_object (lib/debugobjects.c:262)
      __debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:697)
      debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:726)
      kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:2689 mm/slub.c:2717)
      kmem_cache_destroy (mm/slab_common.c:363)
      dcookie_unregister (fs/dcookies.c:302 fs/dcookies.c:343)
      event_buffer_release (arch/x86/oprofile/../../../drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c:153)
      __fput (fs/file_table.c:217)
      ____fput (fs/file_table.c:253)
      task_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:125 (discriminator 1))
      do_notify_resume (include/linux/tracehook.h:196 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:751)
      int_signal (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:807)

Sysfs has a release mechanism.  Use that to release the kmem_cache
structure if CONFIG_SYSFS is enabled.

Only slub is changed - slab currently only supports /proc/slabinfo and
not /sys/kernel/slab/*.  We talked about adding that and someone was
working on it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SYSFS=n build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SYSFS=n build even more]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>slub: rework sysfs layout for memcg caches</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T23:36:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T22:39:31+00:00</published>
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Currently, we try to arrange sysfs entries for memcg caches in the same
manner as for global caches.  Apart from turning /sys/kernel/slab into a
mess when there are a lot of kmem-active memcgs created, it actually
does not work properly - we won't create more than one link to a memcg
cache in case its parent is merged with another cache.  For instance, if
A is a root cache merged with another root cache B, we will have the
following sysfs setup:

  X
  A -&gt; X
  B -&gt; X

where X is some unique id (see create_unique_id()).  Now if memcgs M and
N start to allocate from cache A (or B, which is the same), we will get:

  X
  X:M
  X:N
  A -&gt; X
  B -&gt; X
  A:M -&gt; X:M
  A:N -&gt; X:N

Since B is an alias for A, we won't get entries B:M and B:N, which is
confusing.

It is more logical to have entries for memcg caches under the
corresponding root cache's sysfs directory.  This would allow us to keep
sysfs layout clean, and avoid such inconsistencies like one described
above.

This patch does the trick.  It creates a "cgroup" kset in each root
cache kobject to keep its children caches there.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently, we try to arrange sysfs entries for memcg caches in the same
manner as for global caches.  Apart from turning /sys/kernel/slab into a
mess when there are a lot of kmem-active memcgs created, it actually
does not work properly - we won't create more than one link to a memcg
cache in case its parent is merged with another cache.  For instance, if
A is a root cache merged with another root cache B, we will have the
following sysfs setup:

  X
  A -&gt; X
  B -&gt; X

where X is some unique id (see create_unique_id()).  Now if memcgs M and
N start to allocate from cache A (or B, which is the same), we will get:

  X
  X:M
  X:N
  A -&gt; X
  B -&gt; X
  A:M -&gt; X:M
  A:N -&gt; X:N

Since B is an alias for A, we won't get entries B:M and B:N, which is
confusing.

It is more logical to have entries for memcg caches under the
corresponding root cache's sysfs directory.  This would allow us to keep
sysfs layout clean, and avoid such inconsistencies like one described
above.

This patch does the trick.  It creates a "cgroup" kset in each root
cache kobject to keep its children caches there.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Glauber Costa &lt;glommer@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux</title>
<updated>2013-11-22T16:10:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-22T16:10:34+00:00</published>
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Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "The patches from Joonsoo Kim switch mm/slab.c to use 'struct page' for
  slab internals similar to mm/slub.c.  This reduces memory usage and
  improves performance:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/16/155

  Rest of the changes are bug fixes from various people"

* 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (21 commits)
  mm, slub: fix the typo in mm/slub.c
  mm, slub: fix the typo in include/linux/slub_def.h
  slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags
  slab: replace non-existing 'struct freelist *' with 'void *'
  slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning
  slub: proper kmemleak tracking if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG disabled
  slab: rename slab_bufctl to slab_freelist
  slab: remove useless statement for checking pfmemalloc
  slab: use struct page for slab management
  slab: replace free and inuse in struct slab with newly introduced active
  slab: remove SLAB_LIMIT
  slab: remove kmem_bufctl_t
  slab: change the management method of free objects of the slab
  slab: use __GFP_COMP flag for allocating slab pages
  slab: use well-defined macro, virt_to_slab()
  slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU for RCU free
  slab: remove cachep in struct slab_rcu
  slab: remove nodeid in struct slab
  slab: remove colouroff in struct slab
  slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() to struct page
  ...
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Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "The patches from Joonsoo Kim switch mm/slab.c to use 'struct page' for
  slab internals similar to mm/slub.c.  This reduces memory usage and
  improves performance:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/16/155

  Rest of the changes are bug fixes from various people"

* 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: (21 commits)
  mm, slub: fix the typo in mm/slub.c
  mm, slub: fix the typo in include/linux/slub_def.h
  slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags
  slab: replace non-existing 'struct freelist *' with 'void *'
  slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning
  slub: proper kmemleak tracking if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG disabled
  slab: rename slab_bufctl to slab_freelist
  slab: remove useless statement for checking pfmemalloc
  slab: use struct page for slab management
  slab: replace free and inuse in struct slab with newly introduced active
  slab: remove SLAB_LIMIT
  slab: remove kmem_bufctl_t
  slab: change the management method of free objects of the slab
  slab: use __GFP_COMP flag for allocating slab pages
  slab: use well-defined macro, virt_to_slab()
  slab: overloading the RCU head over the LRU for RCU free
  slab: remove cachep in struct slab_rcu
  slab: remove nodeid in struct slab
  slab: remove colouroff in struct slab
  slab: change return type of kmem_getpages() to struct page
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm, slub: fix the typo in include/linux/slub_def.h</title>
<updated>2013-11-11T16:18:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhi Yong Wu</name>
<email>wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-08T12:47:36+00:00</published>
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Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu &lt;wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
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Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu &lt;wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>slub: remove verify_mem_not_deleted()</title>
<updated>2013-09-04T17:53:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-04T16:35:35+00:00</published>
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I do not see any user for this code in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
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I do not see any user for this code in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common code</title>
<updated>2013-09-04T17:51:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-04T16:35:34+00:00</published>
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The kmalloc* functions of all slab allcoators are similar now so
lets move them into slab.h. This requires some function naming changes
in slob.

As a results of this patch there is a common set of functions for
all allocators. Also means that kmalloc_large() is now available
in general to perform large order allocations that go directly
via the page allocator. kmalloc_large() can be substituted if
kmalloc() throws warnings because of too large allocations.

kmalloc_large() has exactly the same semantics as kmalloc but
can only used for allocations &gt; PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
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The kmalloc* functions of all slab allcoators are similar now so
lets move them into slab.h. This requires some function naming changes
in slob.

As a results of this patch there is a common set of functions for
all allocators. Also means that kmalloc_large() is now available
in general to perform large order allocations that go directly
via the page allocator. kmalloc_large() can be substituted if
kmalloc() throws warnings because of too large allocations.

kmalloc_large() has exactly the same semantics as kmalloc but
can only used for allocations &gt; PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>slab: Common definition for kmem_cache_node</title>
<updated>2013-02-01T10:32:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-10T19:14:19+00:00</published>
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Put the definitions for the kmem_cache_node structures together so that
we have one structure. That will allow us to create more common fields in
the future which could yield more opportunities to share code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
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Put the definitions for the kmem_cache_node structures together so that
we have one structure. That will allow us to create more common fields in
the future which could yield more opportunities to share code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
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