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authorRafael Aquini <[email protected]>2021-04-29 22:54:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2021-04-30 11:20:36 -0700
commit82edd9d52e6dda7cd12047969ae8d357652e2e57 (patch)
tree71452ce22df70b0edbc08502340f5ed292cf9099
parent9bf3bc949f8aeefeacea4b1198db833b722a8e27 (diff)
mm/slab_common: provide "slab_merge" option for !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT) builds
This is a minor addition to the allocator setup options to provide a simple way to on demand enable back cache merging for builds that by default run with CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT not set. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt7
-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c8
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 5c949c12ed07..1c0a3cf6fcc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4996,6 +4996,10 @@
slram= [HW,MTD]
+ slab_merge [MM]
+ Enable merging of slabs with similar size when the
+ kernel is built without CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT.
+
slab_nomerge [MM]
Disable merging of slabs with similar size. May be
necessary if there is some reason to distinguish
@@ -5043,6 +5047,9 @@
lower than slub_max_order.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
+ slub_merge [MM, SLUB]
+ Same with slab_merge.
+
slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
See slab_nomerge for more information.
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 4c6107e39f9a..f8833d3e5d47 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -71,11 +71,19 @@ static int __init setup_slab_nomerge(char *str)
return 1;
}
+static int __init setup_slab_merge(char *str)
+{
+ slab_nomerge = false;
+ return 1;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB
__setup_param("slub_nomerge", slub_nomerge, setup_slab_nomerge, 0);
+__setup_param("slub_merge", slub_merge, setup_slab_merge, 0);
#endif
__setup("slab_nomerge", setup_slab_nomerge);
+__setup("slab_merge", setup_slab_merge);
/*
* Determine the size of a slab object