slub: Extract get_freelist from __slab_alloc

get_freelist retrieves free objects from the page freelist (put there by remote
frees) or deactivates a slab page if no more objects are available.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5e410a9..6dc79f8 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2127,6 +2127,37 @@ static inline void *new_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags,
 }
 
 /*
+ * Check the page->freelist of a page and either transfer the freelist to the per cpu freelist
+ * or deactivate the page.
+ *
+ * The page is still frozen if the return value is not NULL.
+ *
+ * If this function returns NULL then the page has been unfrozen.
+ */
+static inline void *get_freelist(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
+{
+       struct page new;
+       unsigned long counters;
+       void *freelist;
+
+       do {
+               freelist = page->freelist;
+               counters = page->counters;
+               new.counters = counters;
+               VM_BUG_ON(!new.frozen);
+
+               new.inuse = page->objects;
+               new.frozen = freelist != NULL;
+
+       } while (!cmpxchg_double_slab(s, page,
+               freelist, counters,
+               NULL, new.counters,
+               "get_freelist"));
+
+       return freelist;
+}
+
+/*
  * Slow path. The lockless freelist is empty or we need to perform
  * debugging duties.
  *
@@ -2147,8 +2178,6 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node,
 {
        void **object;
        unsigned long flags;
-       struct page new;
-       unsigned long counters;
 
        local_irq_save(flags);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
@@ -2176,29 +2205,7 @@ redo:
 
        stat(s, ALLOC_SLOWPATH);
 
-       do {
-               object = c->page->freelist;
-               counters = c->page->counters;
-               new.counters = counters;
-               VM_BUG_ON(!new.frozen);
-
-               /*
-                * If there is no object left then we use this loop to
-                * deactivate the slab which is simple since no objects
-                * are left in the slab and therefore we do not need to
-                * put the page back onto the partial list.
-                *
-                * If there are objects left then we retrieve them
-                * and use them to refill the per cpu queue.
-                */
-
-               new.inuse = c->page->objects;
-               new.frozen = object != NULL;
-
-       } while (!__cmpxchg_double_slab(s, c->page,
-                       object, counters,
-                       NULL, new.counters,
-                       "__slab_alloc"));
+       object = get_freelist(s, c->page);
 
        if (!object) {
                c->page = NULL;