linux/mm/slab.h
Christoph Lameter 97d0660915 mm, sl[aou]b: Common definition for boot state of the slab allocators
All allocators have some sort of support for the bootstrap status.

Setup a common definition for the boot states and make all slab
allocators use that definition.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-07-09 12:13:35 +03:00

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#ifndef MM_SLAB_H
#define MM_SLAB_H
/*
* Internal slab definitions
*/
/*
* State of the slab allocator.
*
* This is used to describe the states of the allocator during bootup.
* Allocators use this to gradually bootstrap themselves. Most allocators
* have the problem that the structures used for managing slab caches are
* allocated from slab caches themselves.
*/
enum slab_state {
DOWN, /* No slab functionality yet */
PARTIAL, /* SLUB: kmem_cache_node available */
PARTIAL_ARRAYCACHE, /* SLAB: kmalloc size for arraycache available */
PARTIAL_L3, /* SLAB: kmalloc size for l3 struct available */
UP, /* Slab caches usable but not all extras yet */
FULL /* Everything is working */
};
extern enum slab_state slab_state;
struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *));
#endif