Commit 04d94879 authored by Christoph Lameter's avatar Christoph Lameter Committed by Pekka Enberg

slub: Avoid use of slub_lock in show_slab_objects()

The purpose of the locking is to prevent removal and additions
of nodes when statistics are gathered for a slab cache. So we
need to avoid racing with memory hotplug functionality.

It is enough to take the memory hotplug locks there instead
of the slub_lock.

online_pages() currently does not acquire the memory_hotplug
lock. Another patch will be submitted by the memory hotplug
authors to take the memory hotplug lock and describe the
uses of the memory hotplug lock to protect against
adding and removal of nodes from non hotplug data structures.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.37
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
parent 925268a0
......@@ -3821,7 +3821,7 @@ static ssize_t show_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
}
}
down_read(&slub_lock);
lock_memory_hotplug();
#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
if (flags & SO_ALL) {
for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY) {
......@@ -3862,7 +3862,7 @@ static ssize_t show_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
x += sprintf(buf + x, " N%d=%lu",
node, nodes[node]);
#endif
up_read(&slub_lock);
unlock_memory_hotplug();
kfree(nodes);
return x + sprintf(buf + x, "\n");
}
......
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