From: Mikulas Patocka Allocate "struct io" from a slab. This patch changes dm-io, so that "struct io" is allocated from a slab cache. It used to be allocated with kmalloc. Allocating from a slab will be needed for the next patch, because it requires a special alignment of "struct io" and kmalloc cannot meet this alignment. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-io.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/md/dm.c | 2 ++ drivers/md/dm.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm-io.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.32.orig/drivers/md/dm-io.c +++ linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm-io.c @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ * This file is released under the GPL. */ +#include "dm.h" + #include #include @@ -30,6 +32,8 @@ struct io { void *context; }; +static struct kmem_cache *_dm_io_cache; + /* * io contexts are only dynamically allocated for asynchronous * io. Since async io is likely to be the majority of io we'll @@ -53,7 +57,7 @@ struct dm_io_client *dm_io_client_create if (!client) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - client->pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(ios, sizeof(struct io)); + client->pool = mempool_create_slab_pool(ios, _dm_io_cache); if (!client->pool) goto bad; @@ -472,3 +476,18 @@ int dm_io(struct dm_io_request *io_req, &dp, io_req->notify.fn, io_req->notify.context); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_io); + +int __init dm_io_init(void) +{ + _dm_io_cache = KMEM_CACHE(io, 0); + if (!_dm_io_cache) + return -ENOMEM; + + return 0; +} + +void dm_io_exit(void) +{ + kmem_cache_destroy(_dm_io_cache); + _dm_io_cache = NULL; +} Index: linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.32.orig/drivers/md/dm.c +++ linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ static int (*_inits[])(void) __initdata dm_target_init, dm_linear_init, dm_stripe_init, + dm_io_init, dm_kcopyd_init, dm_interface_init, }; @@ -284,6 +285,7 @@ static void (*_exits[])(void) = { dm_target_exit, dm_linear_exit, dm_stripe_exit, + dm_io_exit, dm_kcopyd_exit, dm_interface_exit, }; Index: linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.32.orig/drivers/md/dm.h +++ linux-2.6.32/drivers/md/dm.h @@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ int dm_lock_for_deletion(struct mapped_d void dm_kobject_uevent(struct mapped_device *md, enum kobject_action action, unsigned cookie); +int dm_io_init(void); +void dm_io_exit(void); + int dm_kcopyd_init(void); void dm_kcopyd_exit(void);