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SubjectRe: Memory allocator semantics
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:43:35PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> > So again, there's nothing in (A) that the memory allocator is
> > concerned about. kmalloc() makes no guarantees whatsoever about the
> > visibility of "r1" across CPUs. If you're saying that there's an
> > implicit barrier between kmalloc() and kfree(), that's an unintended
> > side-effect, not a design decision AFAICT.
>
> I am not sure that this side effect necessarily happens. The SLUB fastpath
> does not disable interrupts and only uses a cmpxchg without lock
> semantics.

That tells me what I need to know. Users should definitely not try a
"drive-by kfree()" of something that was concurrently allocated. ;-)

Thanx, Paul



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