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SubjectRe: slub: use irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg for put_cpu_partial
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Le mercredi 23 novembre 2011 à 09:14 -0600, Christoph Lameter a écrit :

> I think he only tested the patch that he showed us. Here is the patch
> cleaned up. Do you Want me to feed you the debug fixes patch by patch as
> well?
>
> Subject: slub: use irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg for put_cpu_partial
>
> The cmpxchg must be irq safe. The fallback for this_cpu_cmpxchg only
> disables preemption which results in per cpu partial page operation
> potentially failing on non x86 platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
>
> ---
> mm/slub.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2011-11-23 09:10:48.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2011-11-23 09:10:57.000000000 -0600
> @@ -1969,7 +1969,7 @@ int put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s
> page->pobjects = pobjects;
> page->next = oldpage;
>
> - } while (this_cpu_cmpxchg(s->cpu_slab->partial, oldpage, page) != oldpage);
> + } while (irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg(s->cpu_slab->partial, oldpage, page) != oldpage);
> stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_FREE);
> return pobjects;
> }

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Thanks !


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