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authorJoonsoo Kim <[email protected]>2016-05-19 17:10:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2016-05-19 19:12:14 -0700
commit76b342bdc71badea2cbac7bf6590aa86e895c507 (patch)
tree325db0807b58b03e598513a5243d350d7bb9b958 /include/linux
parent511e3a05881221a7fc63e36f3d604887040fc845 (diff)
mm/slab: separate cache_grow() to two parts
This is a preparation step to implement lockless allocation path when there is no free objects in kmem_cache. What we'd like to do here is to refill cpu cache without holding a node lock. To accomplish this purpose, refill should be done after new slab allocation but before attaching the slab to the management list. So, this patch separates cache_grow() to two parts, allocation and attaching to the list in order to add some code inbetween them in the following patch. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[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]>
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