From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754967AbaDGJpo (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2014 05:45:44 -0400 Received: from relay.parallels.com ([195.214.232.42]:45857 "EHLO relay.parallels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750957AbaDGJpi (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2014 05:45:38 -0400 From: Vladimir Davydov To: CC: , , , , Subject: [PATCH -mm v2 0/2] slab: cleanup mem hotplug synchronization Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 13:45:33 +0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Originating-IP: [10.30.16.96] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink} need to get a stable value of cpu/node online mask, because they init/destroy/access per-cpu/node kmem_cache parts, which can be allocated or destroyed on cpu/mem hotplug. To protect against cpu hotplug, these functions use {get,put}_online_cpus. However, they do nothing to synchronize with memory hotplug - taking the slab_mutex does not eliminate the possibility of race as described in patch 2. What we need there is something like get_online_cpus, but for memory. We already have lock_memory_hotplug, which serves for the purpose, but it's a bit of a hammer right now, because it's backed by a mutex. As a result, it imposes some limitations to locking order, which are not desirable, and can't be used just like get_online_cpus. That's why in patch 1 I substitute it with get/put_online_mems, which work exactly like get/put_online_cpus except they block not cpu, but memory hotplug. [ v1 can be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/6/68. I NAK'ed it by myself, because it used an rw semaphore for get/put_online_mems, making them dead lock prune. ] Thanks, Vladimir Davydov (2): mem-hotplug: implement get/put_online_mems slab: lock_memory_hotplug for kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink} include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 14 ++-- include/linux/mmzone.h | 8 +-- mm/kmemleak.c | 4 +- mm/memory-failure.c | 8 +-- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 142 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ mm/slab.c | 26 +------- mm/slab.h | 1 + mm/slab_common.c | 35 +++++++++- mm/slob.c | 3 +- mm/slub.c | 9 ++- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 11 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-) -- 1.7.10.4