Re: [GIT PULL v2] Early SLAB fixes for 2.6.31

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:52 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Furthermore, early boot cache sysfs setup is explicitly
> > handled in slab_sysfs_init() so I think we need something like the patch
> > below?
> 
> I don't think so because keventd probably comes up before sysfs
> still is ready (in this respect the existing pre-early-slab code
> is probably still broken but just never done such early DMA
> allocations). So it just makes sense to do it all via the slab_state
> flag.
> 
> Also, if you keep the deferred flag on there for early created
> slabs, then the next sysfs_add_work will try to add it again
> (after slab_sysfs_init already added it).
> 
> Here
> 
> ---
>  mm/slub.c |   17 ++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2596,6 +2596,7 @@ static noinline struct kmem_cache *dma_k
>  	struct kmem_cache *s;
>  	char *text;
>  	size_t realsize;
> +	unsigned long slabflags;
>  
>  	s = kmalloc_caches_dma[index];
>  	if (s)
> @@ -2617,9 +2618,18 @@ static noinline struct kmem_cache *dma_k
>  			 (unsigned int)realsize);
>  	s = kmalloc(kmem_size, flags & ~SLUB_DMA);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Must defer sysfs creation to a workqueue because we don't know
> +	 * what context we are called from. Before sysfs comes up, we don't
> +	 * need to do anything because slab_sysfs_init will start by
> +	 * adding all existing slabs to sysfs.
> +	 */
> +	slabflags = SLAB_CACHE_DMA;
> +	if (slab_state >= SYSFS)
> +		slabflags |= __SYSFS_ADD_DEFERRED;
> +
>  	if (!s || !text || !kmem_cache_open(s, flags, text,
> -			realsize, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,
> -			SLAB_CACHE_DMA|__SYSFS_ADD_DEFERRED, NULL)) {
> +			realsize, ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, slabflags, NULL)) {
>  		kfree(s);
>  		kfree(text);
>  		goto unlock_out;
> @@ -2628,7 +2638,8 @@ static noinline struct kmem_cache *dma_k
>  	list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches);
>  	kmalloc_caches_dma[index] = s;
>  
> -	schedule_work(&sysfs_add_work);
> +	if (slab_state >= SYSFS)
> +		schedule_work(&sysfs_add_work);
>  
>  unlock_out:
>  	up_write(&slub_lock);

Looks good to me. Heiko, does it fix your case?

			Pekka