mm/page_ext: support extra space allocation by page_ext user
authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:34:07 +0000 (20:34 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:34:07 +0000 (20:34 +1000)
commit76d6f34cf1ae4939198d432963f21101146bfa5c
tree4e959da9be0a7fda5b5e8d66a2faa3fa6b7d1670
parent30334ceafe2027b5dc62ff25380fb14e1e5afa0f
mm/page_ext: support extra space allocation by page_ext user

Until now, if some page_ext users want to use it's own field on page_ext,
it should be defined in struct page_ext by hard-coding.  It has a problem
that wastes memory in following situation.

struct page_ext {
 #ifdef CONFIG_A
int a;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_B
int b;
 #endif
};

Assume that kernel is built with both CONFIG_A and CONFIG_B.  Even if we
enable feature A and doesn't enable feature B at runtime, each entry of
struct page_ext takes two int rather than one int.  It's undesirable
result so this patch tries to fix it.

To solve above problem, this patch implements to support extra space
allocation at runtime.  When need() callback returns true, it's extra
memory requirement is summed to entry size of page_ext.  Also, offset for
each user's extra memory space is returned.  With this offset, user can
use this extra space and there is no need to define needed field on
page_ext by hard-coding.

This patch only implements an infrastructure.  Following patch will use it
for page_owner which is only user having it's own fields on page_ext.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471315879-32294-6-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/page_ext.h
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/page_ext.c
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