From 9ab1544eb4196ca8d05c433b2eb56f74496b1ee3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lai Jiangshan Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:15:47 +0800 Subject: rcu: introduce kfree_rcu() Many rcu callbacks functions just call kfree() on the base structure. These functions are trivial, but their size adds up, and furthermore when they are used in a kernel module, that module must invoke the high-latency rcu_barrier() function at module-unload time. The kfree_rcu() function introduced by this commit addresses this issue. Rather than encoding a function address in the embedded rcu_head structure, kfree_rcu() instead encodes the offset of the rcu_head structure within the base structure. Because the functions are not allowed in the low-order 4096 bytes of kernel virtual memory, offsets up to 4095 bytes can be accommodated. If the offset is larger than 4095 bytes, a compile-time error will be generated in __kfree_rcu(). If this error is triggered, you can either fall back to use of call_rcu() or rearrange the structure to position the rcu_head structure into the first 4096 bytes. Note that the allowable offset might decrease in the future, for example, to allow something like kmem_cache_free_rcu(). The new kfree_rcu() function can replace code as follows: call_rcu(&p->rcu, simple_kfree_callback); where "simple_kfree_callback()" might be defined as follows: void simple_kfree_callback(struct rcu_head *p) { struct foo *q = container_of(p, struct foo, rcu); kfree(q); } with the following: kfree_rcu(&p->rcu, rcu); Note that the "rcu" is the name of a field in the structure being freed. The reason for using this rather than passing in a pointer to the base structure is that the above approach allows better type checking. This commit is based on earlier work by Lai Jiangshan and Manfred Spraul: Lai's V1 patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/18/1 Manfred's patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/2/115 Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- kernel/rcutree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.c') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index b579e4f9721..2c07adb9708 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) next = list->next; prefetch(next); debug_rcu_head_unqueue(list); - list->func(list); + __rcu_reclaim(list); list = next; if (++count >= rdp->blimit) break; -- cgit v1.2.3