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-rw-r--r--mm/slob.c49
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index 11a87586d4b7..06e5e725fab3 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
*
* The core of SLOB is a traditional K&R style heap allocator, with
* support for returning aligned objects. The granularity of this
- * allocator is 4 bytes on 32-bit and 8 bytes on 64-bit, though it
- * could be as low as 2 if the compiler alignment requirements allow.
+ * allocator is as little as 2 bytes, however typically most architectures
+ * will require 4 bytes on 32-bit and 8 bytes on 64-bit.
*
* The slob heap is a linked list of pages from __get_free_page, and
* within each page, there is a singly-linked list of free blocks (slob_t).
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
* first-fit.
*
* Above this is an implementation of kmalloc/kfree. Blocks returned
- * from kmalloc are 4-byte aligned and prepended with a 4-byte header.
+ * from kmalloc are prepended with a 4-byte header with the kmalloc size.
* If kmalloc is asked for objects of PAGE_SIZE or larger, it calls
* __get_free_pages directly, allocating compound pages so the page order
* does not have to be separately tracked, and also stores the exact
@@ -45,13 +45,6 @@
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
-/* SLOB_MIN_ALIGN == sizeof(long) */
-#if BITS_PER_BYTE == 32
-#define SLOB_MIN_ALIGN 4
-#else
-#define SLOB_MIN_ALIGN 8
-#endif
-
/*
* slob_block has a field 'units', which indicates size of block if +ve,
* or offset of next block if -ve (in SLOB_UNITs).
@@ -60,19 +53,15 @@
* Those with larger size contain their size in the first SLOB_UNIT of
* memory, and the offset of the next free block in the second SLOB_UNIT.
*/
-#if PAGE_SIZE <= (32767 * SLOB_MIN_ALIGN)
+#if PAGE_SIZE <= (32767 * 2)
typedef s16 slobidx_t;
#else
typedef s32 slobidx_t;
#endif
-/*
- * Align struct slob_block to long for now, but can some embedded
- * architectures get away with less?
- */
struct slob_block {
slobidx_t units;
-} __attribute__((aligned(SLOB_MIN_ALIGN)));
+};
typedef struct slob_block slob_t;
/*
@@ -384,14 +373,25 @@ out:
* End of slob allocator proper. Begin kmem_cache_alloc and kmalloc frontend.
*/
+#ifndef ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
+#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN __alignof__(unsigned long)
+#endif
+
+#ifndef ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
+#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN __alignof__(unsigned long)
+#endif
+
+
void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
{
- if (size < PAGE_SIZE - SLOB_UNIT) {
- slob_t *m;
- m = slob_alloc(size + SLOB_UNIT, gfp, 0);
+ int align = max(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN);
+
+ if (size < PAGE_SIZE - align) {
+ unsigned int *m;
+ m = slob_alloc(size + align, gfp, align);
if (m)
- m->units = size;
- return m+1;
+ *m = size;
+ return (void *)m + align;
} else {
void *ret;
@@ -449,8 +449,9 @@ void kfree(const void *block)
sp = (struct slob_page *)virt_to_page(block);
if (slob_page(sp)) {
- slob_t *m = (slob_t *)block - 1;
- slob_free(m, m->units + SLOB_UNIT);
+ int align = max(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN);
+ unsigned int *m = (unsigned int *)(block - align);
+ slob_free(m, *m + align);
} else
put_page(&sp->page);
}
@@ -499,6 +500,8 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
c->ctor = ctor;
/* ignore alignment unless it's forced */
c->align = (flags & SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN) ? SLOB_ALIGN : 0;
+ if (c->align < ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN)
+ c->align = ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN;
if (c->align < align)
c->align = align;
} else if (flags & SLAB_PANIC)
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