On Mon, 21 May 2018, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The patch seems depressingly complex.
>
> And a bit underdocumented...
Maybe separate out the bits that rename refcount to alias_count?
> > + refcount_t refcount;
> > + int alias_count;
>
> The semantic meaning of these two? What locking protects alias_count?
slab_mutex
>
> > int object_size;
> > int align;
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
> > index 3773e26c08c1..532d4b6f83ed 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
> > @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ struct kmem_cache {
> > struct kmem_cache_order_objects max;
> > struct kmem_cache_order_objects min;
> > gfp_t allocflags; /* gfp flags to use on each alloc */
> > - int refcount; /* Refcount for slab cache destroy */
> > + refcount_t refcount; /* Refcount for slab cache destroy */
> > + int alias_count; /* Number of root kmem caches merged */
>
> "merged" what with what in what manner?
That is a basic SLUB feature.
