Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Feb 2014 10:22:58 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] slub: do not drop slab_mutex for sysfs_slab_{add,remove} |
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> When creating/destroying a kmem cache, we do a lot of work holding the > slab_mutex, but we drop it for sysfs_slab_{add,remove} for some reason. > Since __kmem_cache_create and __kmem_cache_shutdown are extremely rare, > I propose to simplify locking by calling sysfs_slab_{add,remove} w/o > dropping the slab_mutex.
The problem is that sysfs does nasty things like spawning a process in user space that may lead to something wanting to create slabs too. The module may then hang waiting on the lock ...
I would be very thankful, if you can get that actually working reliably without deadlock issues.
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