mm: Split slab into its own type

Make struct slab independent of struct page. It still uses the
underlying memory in struct page for storing slab-specific data, but
slab and slub can now be weaned off using struct page directly.  Some of
the wrapper functions (slab_address() and slab_order()) still need to
cast to struct folio, but this is a significant disentanglement.

[ vbabka@suse.cz: Rebase on folios, use folio instead of page where
  possible.

  Do not duplicate flags field in struct slab, instead make the related
  accessors go through slab_folio(). For testing pfmemalloc use the
  folio_*_active flag accessors directly so the PageSlabPfmemalloc
  wrappers can be removed later.

  Make folio_slab() expect only folio_test_slab() == true folios and
  virt_to_slab() return NULL when folio_test_slab() == false.

  Move struct slab to mm/slab.h.

  Don't represent with struct slab pages that are not true slab pages,
  but just a compound page obtained directly rom page allocator (with
  large kmalloc() for SLUB and SLOB). ]

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index c3a6e6209600..1ae3537c7920 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup;
  * in each subpage, but you may need to restore some of their values
  * afterwards.
  *
- * SLUB uses cmpxchg_double() to atomically update its freelist and
- * counters.  That requires that freelist & counters be adjacent and
- * double-word aligned.  We align all struct pages to double-word
- * boundaries, and ensure that 'freelist' is aligned within the
- * struct.
+ * SLUB uses cmpxchg_double() to atomically update its freelist and counters.
+ * That requires that freelist & counters in struct slab be adjacent and
+ * double-word aligned. Because struct slab currently just reinterprets the
+ * bits of struct page, we align all struct pages to double-word boundaries,
+ * and ensure that 'freelist' is aligned within struct slab.
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE
 #define _struct_page_alignment	__aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long))