Re: [RFC PATCH v5 01/16] slub: Add isolate() and migrate() methods

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Mon May 20 2019 - 20:40:43 EST


On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 03:40:02PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Add the two methods needed for moving objects and enable the display of
> the callbacks via the /sys/kernel/slab interface.
>
> Add documentation explaining the use of these methods and the prototypes
> for slab.h. Add functions to setup the callbacks method for a slab
> cache.
>
> Add empty functions for SLAB/SLOB. The API is generic so it could be
> theoretically implemented for these allocators as well.
>
> Change sysfs 'ctor' field to be 'ops' to contain all the callback
> operations defined for a slab cache. Display the existing 'ctor'
> callback in the ops fields contents along with 'isolate' and 'migrate'
> callbacks.
>
> Co-developed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/slab.h | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/slub_def.h | 3 ++
> mm/slub.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 3 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>

Thanks!