内存管理API之kmem_cache_create

struct kmem_cache *
kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
		  slab_flags_t flags, void (*ctor)(void *))
用于创建一个新的slab 缓存，一般在驱动初始化的时候用。
其使用的例程如下：
		amd_iommu_irq_cache = kmem_cache_create("irq_remap_cache",
							remap_cache_sz,
							IRQ_TABLE_ALIGNMENT,
							0, NULL);
		if (!amd_iommu_irq_cache)
			goto out;
例如本例中就创建了一个新的名为irq_remap_cache缓存
其源码分析如下：
struct kmem_cache *
kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
		  slab_flags_t flags, void (*ctor)(void *))
{
	struct kmem_cache *s = NULL;
	const char *cache_name;
	int err;
	#获得online cpu 和mem的锁
	get_online_cpus();
	get_online_mems();
	memcg_get_cache_ids();

	mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
	#检查要新建缓存的name和缓存中提供申请memory的size
	err = kmem_cache_sanity_check(name, size);
	if (err) {
		goto out_unlock;
	}

	/* Refuse requests with allocator specific flags */
	#flags 中不能包含SLAB_FLAGS_PERMITTED
	if (flags & ~SLAB_FLAGS_PERMITTED) {
		err = -EINVAL;
		goto out_unlock;
	}

	/*
	 * Some allocators will constraint the set of valid flags to a subset
	 * of all flags. We expect them to define CACHE_CREATE_MASK in this
	 * case, and we'll just provide them with a sanitized version of the
	 * passed flags.
	 */
	flags &= CACHE_CREATE_MASK;

	s = __kmem_cache_alias(name, size, align, flags, ctor);
	if (s)
		goto out_unlock;
	#申请一段memory 用于保存新缓存的name
	cache_name = kstrdup_const(name, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!cache_name) {
		err = -ENOMEM;
		goto out_unlock;
	}
	#创建新的缓存
	s = create_cache(cache_name, size, size,
			 calculate_alignment(flags, align, size),
			 flags, ctor, NULL, NULL);
	if (IS_ERR(s)) {
		err = PTR_ERR(s);
		kfree_const(cache_name);
	}

out_unlock:
	mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);

	memcg_put_cache_ids();
	put_online_mems();
	put_online_cpus();
	#创建缓存失败时会打印log，如果flags 中没有包含SLAB_PANIC，则会打印当前的当前的callstack
	if (err) {
		if (flags & SLAB_PANIC)
			panic("kmem_cache_create: Failed to create slab '%s'. Error %d\n",
				name, err);
		else {
			pr_warn("kmem_cache_create(%s) failed with error %d\n",
				name, err);
			dump_stack();
		}
		return NULL;
	}
	return s;
}