3 files changed, 26 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index faf4b7c1ad12..95bf0c5a7eb9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -42,18 +42,22 @@ struct page {
 	/* First double word block */
 	unsigned long flags;		/* Atomic flags, some possibly
 					 * updated asynchronously */
-	struct address_space *mapping;	/* If low bit clear, points to
-					 * inode address_space, or NULL.
-					 * If page mapped as anonymous
-					 * memory, low bit is set, and
-					 * it points to anon_vma object:
-					 * see PAGE_MAPPING_ANON below.
-					 */
+	union {
+		struct address_space *mapping;	/* If low bit clear, points to
+						 * inode address_space, or NULL.
+						 * If page mapped as anonymous
+						 * memory, low bit is set, and
+						 * it points to anon_vma object:
+						 * see PAGE_MAPPING_ANON below.
+						 */
+		void *s_mem;			/* slab first object */
+	};
+
 	/* Second double word */
 	struct {
 		union {
 			pgoff_t index;		/* Our offset within mapping. */
-			void *freelist;		/* slub/slob first free object */
+			void *freelist;		/* sl[aou]b first free object */
 			bool pfmemalloc;	/* If set by the page allocator,
 						 * ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS was set
 						 * and the low watermark was not
@@ -109,6 +113,7 @@ struct page {
 				};
 				atomic_t _count;		/* Usage count, see below. */
 			};
+			unsigned int active;	/* SLAB */
 		};
 	};
 
@@ -130,6 +135,9 @@ struct page {
 
 		struct list_head list;	/* slobs list of pages */
 		struct slab *slab_page; /* slab fields */
+		struct rcu_head rcu_head;	/* Used by SLAB
+						 * when destroying via RCU
+						 */
 	};
 
 	/* Remainder is not double word aligned */
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 6c5cc0ea8713..caaad51fee1f 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -51,7 +51,14 @@
  *  }
  *  rcu_read_unlock();
  *
- * See also the comment on struct slab_rcu in mm/slab.c.
+ * This is useful if we need to approach a kernel structure obliquely,
+ * from its address obtained without the usual locking. We can lock
+ * the structure to stabilize it and check it's still at the given address,
+ * only if we can be sure that the memory has not been meanwhile reused
+ * for some other kind of object (which our subsystem's lock might corrupt).
+ *
+ * rcu_read_lock before reading the address, then rcu_read_unlock after
+ * taking the spinlock within the structure expected at that address.
  */
 #define SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU	0x00080000UL	/* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */
 #define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD		0x00100000UL	/* Spread some memory over cpuset */
diff --git a/include/linux/slab_def.h b/include/linux/slab_def.h
index cd401580bdd3..ca82e8ff89fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab_def.h
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ struct kmem_cache {
 
 	size_t colour;			/* cache colouring range */
 	unsigned int colour_off;	/* colour offset */
-	struct kmem_cache *slabp_cache;
-	unsigned int slab_size;
+	struct kmem_cache *freelist_cache;
+	unsigned int freelist_size;
 
 	/* constructor func */
 	void (*ctor)(void *obj);