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authorJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>2006-03-07 21:55:46 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-08 14:15:04 -0800
commit07ed76b2a085a31f427c2a912a562627947dc7de (patch)
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parent731805b49489055c1548f7ccfbd44c9b84013264 (diff)
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[PATCH] slab: allocate larger cache_cache if order 0 fails
kmem_cache_init() incorrectly assumes that the cache_cache object will fit in an order 0 allocation. On very large systems, this is not true. Change the code to try larger order allocations if order 0 fails. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 6ad6bd5..61800b8 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
struct cache_sizes *sizes;
struct cache_names *names;
int i;
+ int order;
for (i = 0; i < NUM_INIT_LISTS; i++) {
kmem_list3_init(&initkmem_list3[i]);
@@ -1167,11 +1168,15 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
cache_cache.buffer_size = ALIGN(cache_cache.buffer_size, cache_line_size());
- cache_estimate(0, cache_cache.buffer_size, cache_line_size(), 0,
- &left_over, &cache_cache.num);
+ for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
+ cache_estimate(order, cache_cache.buffer_size,
+ cache_line_size(), 0, &left_over, &cache_cache.num);
+ if (cache_cache.num)
+ break;
+ }
if (!cache_cache.num)
BUG();
-
+ cache_cache.gfporder = order;
cache_cache.colour = left_over / cache_cache.colour_off;
cache_cache.slab_size = ALIGN(cache_cache.num * sizeof(kmem_bufctl_t) +
sizeof(struct slab), cache_line_size());