mm: slub: introduce virt_to_obj function

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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
index 9abf04ed0999..db7d5de00c5f 100644
--- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
@@ -110,4 +110,20 @@ static inline void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s)
 }
 #endif
 
+
+/**
+ * virt_to_obj - returns address of the beginning of object.
+ * @s: object's kmem_cache
+ * @slab_page: address of slab page
+ * @x: address within object memory range
+ *
+ * Returns address of the beginning of object
+ */
+static inline void *virt_to_obj(struct kmem_cache *s,
+				const void *slab_page,
+				const void *x)
+{
+	return (void *)x - ((x - slab_page) % s->size);
+}
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_SLUB_DEF_H */