slab: factor out calculate nr objects in cache_estimate

This logic is not simple to understand so that making separate function
helping readability. Additionally, we can use this change in the
following patch which implement for freelist to have another sized index
in according to nr objects.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: introduce helper functions to get/set free object

In the following patches, to get/set free objects from the freelist
is changed so that simple casting doesn't work for it. Therefore,
introduce helper functions.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: restrict the number of objects in a slab

To prepare to implement byte sized index for managing the freelist
of a slab, we should restrict the number of objects in a slab to be less
or equal to 256, since byte only represent 256 different values.
Setting the size of object to value equal or more than newly introduced
SLAB_OBJ_MIN_SIZE ensures that the number of objects in a slab is less or
equal to 256 for a slab with 1 page.

If page size is rather larger than 4096, above assumption would be wrong.
In this case, we would fall back on 2 bytes sized index.

If minimum size of kmalloc is less than 16, we use it as minimum object
size and give up this optimization.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist of a slab

Currently, the freelist of a slab consist of unsigned int sized indexes.
Since most of slabs have less number of objects than 256, large sized
indexes is needless. For example, consider the minimum kmalloc slab. It's
object size is 32 byte and it would consist of one page, so 256 indexes
through byte sized index are enough to contain all possible indexes.

There can be some slabs whose object size is 8 byte. We cannot handle
this case with byte sized index, so we need to restrict minimum
object size. Since these slabs are not major, wasted memory from these
slabs would be negligible.

Some architectures' page size isn't 4096 bytes and rather larger than
4096 bytes (One example is 64KB page size on PPC or IA64) so that
byte sized index doesn't fit to them. In this case, we will use
two bytes sized index.

Below is some number for this patch.

* Before *
kmalloc-512          525    640    512    8    1 : tunables   54   27    0 : slabdata     80     80      0
kmalloc-256          210    210    256   15    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     14     14      0
kmalloc-192         1016   1040    192   20    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     52     52      0
kmalloc-96           560    620    128   31    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     20     20      0
kmalloc-64          2148   2280     64   60    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     38     38      0
kmalloc-128          647    682    128   31    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     22     22      0
kmalloc-32         11360  11413     32  113    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata    101    101      0
kmem_cache           197    200    192   20    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     10     10      0

* After *
kmalloc-512          521    648    512    8    1 : tunables   54   27    0 : slabdata     81     81      0
kmalloc-256          208    208    256   16    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     13     13      0
kmalloc-192         1029   1029    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     49     49      0
kmalloc-96           529    589    128   31    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     19     19      0
kmalloc-64          2142   2142     64   63    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     34     34      0
kmalloc-128          660    682    128   31    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     22     22      0
kmalloc-32         11716  11780     32  124    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     95     95      0
kmem_cache           197    210    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata     10     10      0

kmem_caches consisting of objects less than or equal to 256 byte have
one or more objects than before. In the case of kmalloc-32, we have 11 more
objects, so 352 bytes (11 * 32) are saved and this is roughly 9% saving of
memory. Of couse, this percentage decreases as the number of objects
in a slab decreases.

Here are the performance results on my 4 cpus machine.

* Before *

 Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched messaging -g 50 -l 1000' (10 runs):

       229,945,138 cache-misses                                                  ( +-  0.23% )

      11.627897174 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.14% )

* After *

 Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched messaging -g 50 -l 1000' (10 runs):

       218,640,472 cache-misses                                                  ( +-  0.42% )

      11.504999837 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.21% )

cache-misses are reduced by this patchset, roughly 5%.
And elapsed times are improved by 1%.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: make more slab management structure off the slab

Now, the size of the freelist for the slab management diminish,
so that the on-slab management structure can waste large space
if the object of the slab is large.

Consider a 128 byte sized slab. If on-slab is used, 31 objects can be
in the slab. The size of the freelist for this case would be 31 bytes
so that 97 bytes, that is, more than 75% of object size, are wasted.

In a 64 byte sized slab case, no space is wasted if we use on-slab.
So set off-slab determining constraint to 128 bytes.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: Make allocations with GFP_ZERO slightly more efficient

Use the likely mechanism already around valid
pointer tests to better choose when to memset
to 0 allocations with __GFP_ZERO

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slub: fix high order page allocation problem with __GFP_NOFAIL

SLUB already try to allocate high order page with clearing __GFP_NOFAIL.
But, when allocating shadow page for kmemcheck, it missed clearing
the flag. This trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() reported by Christian Casteyde.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65991
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/3/764

This patch fix this situation by using same allocation flag as original
allocation.

Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
slab: fix wrongly used macro

commit 'slab: restrict the number of objects in a slab' uses
__builtin_constant_p() on #if macro. It is wrong usage of builtin
function, but it is compiled on x86 without any problem, so I can't
find it before 0 day build system find it.

This commit fixes the situation by using KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE, instead of
KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW. KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW is parsed to ilog2() on some
architecture and this ilog2() uses __builtin_constant_p() and results in
the problem. This problem would disappear by using KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE,
since it is just constant.

Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slab.c: cleanup outdated comments and unify variables naming

As time goes, the code changes a lot, and this leads to that
some old-days comments scatter around , which instead of faciliating
understanding, but make more confusion. So this patch cleans up them.

Also, this patch unifies some variables naming.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru

'struct page' has two list_head fields: 'lru' and 'list'.  Conveniently,
they are unioned together.  This means that code can use them
interchangably, which gets horribly confusing like with this nugget from
slab.c:

>	list_del(&page->lru);
>	if (page->active == cachep->num)
>		list_add(&page->list, &n->slabs_full);

This patch makes the slab and slub code use page->lru universally instead
of mixing ->list and ->lru.

So, the new rule is: page->lru is what the you use if you want to keep
your page on a list.  Don't like the fact that it's not called ->list?
Too bad.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux

Pull slab changes from Pekka Enberg:
 "The biggest change is byte-sized freelist indices which reduces slab
  freelist memory usage:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/64"

* 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru
  mm/slab.c: cleanup outdated comments and unify variables naming
  slab: fix wrongly used macro
  slub: fix high order page allocation problem with __GFP_NOFAIL
  slab: Make allocations with GFP_ZERO slightly more efficient
  slab: make more slab management structure off the slab
  slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist of a slab
  slab: restrict the number of objects in a slab
  slab: introduce helper functions to get/set free object
  slab: factor out calculate nr objects in cache_estimate
cifs: Use min_t() when comparing "size_t" and "unsigned long"

On 32 bit, size_t is "unsigned int", not "unsigned long", causing the
following warning when comparing with PAGE_SIZE, which is always "unsigned
long":

  fs/cifs/file.c: In function ‘cifs_readdata_to_iov’:
  fs/cifs/file.c:2757: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

Introduced by commit 7f25bba819a3 ("cifs_iovec_read: keep iov_iter
between the calls of cifs_readdata_to_iov()"), which changed the
signedness of "remaining" and the code from min_t() to min().

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: Initialize error in shmem_file_aio_read()

Some versions of gcc even warn about it:

  mm/shmem.c: In function ‘shmem_file_aio_read’:
  mm/shmem.c:1414: warning: ‘error’ may be used uninitialized in this function

If the loop is aborted during the first iteration by one of the two
first break statements, error will be uninitialized.

Introduced by commit 6e58e79db8a1 ("introduce copy_page_to_iter, kill
loop over iovec in generic_file_aio_read()").

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux 3.15-rc1