SLUB: Move sysfs operations outside of slub_lock
Sysfs can do a gazillion things when called. Make sure that we do not call any sysfs functions while holding the slub_lock. Just protect the essentials: 1. The list of all slab caches 2. The kmalloc_dma array 3. The ref counters of the slabs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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