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For SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches we use call_rcu to perform empty slab
freeing. The rcu callback rcu_free_slab() calls __free_slab() that
currently includes checking the slab consistency for caches with
SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS flags. This check needs the slab->objects field
to be intact.

Because in the next patch we want to allow rcu_head in struct slab to
become larger in debug configurations and thus potentially overwrite
more fields through a union than slab_list, we want to limit the fields
used in rcu_free_slab().  Thus move the consistency checks to
free_slab() before call_rcu(). This can be done safely even for
SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches where accesses to the objects can still
occur after freeing them.

As a result, only the slab->slab_cache field has to be physically
separate from rcu_head for the freeing callback to work. We also save
some cycles in the rcu callback for caches with consistency checks
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>