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-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h11
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 2b58d192ea24..8967e20cbe57 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ struct page {
union {
struct list_head lru; /* Pageout list, eg. active_list
* protected by zone->lru_lock !
+ * Can be used as a generic list
+ * by the page owner.
*/
struct { /* slub per cpu partial pages */
struct page *next; /* Next partial slab */
@@ -136,7 +138,6 @@ struct page {
#endif
};
- struct list_head list; /* slobs list of pages */
struct slab *slab_page; /* slab fields */
struct rcu_head rcu_head; /* Used by SLAB
* when destroying via RCU
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 3dd389aa91c7..307bfbe62387 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -242,6 +242,17 @@ struct kmem_cache {
#define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE (1 << KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW)
#endif
+/*
+ * This restriction comes from byte sized index implementation.
+ * Page size is normally 2^12 bytes and, in this case, if we want to use
+ * byte sized index which can represent 2^8 entries, the size of the object
+ * should be equal or greater to 2^12 / 2^8 = 2^4 = 16.
+ * If minimum size of kmalloc is less than 16, we use it as minimum object
+ * size and give up to use byte sized index.
+ */
+#define SLAB_OBJ_MIN_SIZE (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE < 16 ? \
+ (KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE) : 16)
+
#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
extern struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_caches[KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH + 1];
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA