linux-kernel - Re: slab: start_cpu_timer/cache_reap CONFIG_HOTPLUG

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:09:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Gautham shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slab: start_cpu_timer/cache_reap CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU problems

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> >                                      The slab would need a notification 
> > that the workqueue for a processor was shutdown in order to set work.func 
> > = NULL.
> 
> The slab has a notification: CPU_XXX events. It should cancel a pending per
> cpu "reap_work timer".

Ahh. Okay then the following patch would fix it?

Shutdown cache_reaper when cpu goes down

Shutdown the cache_reaper in slab.c if the cpu is brought down
and set the cache_reap.func to NULL. Otherwise hotplug shuts
down the reaper for good.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>

Index: linux-2.6.20-rc6/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-rc6.orig/mm/slab.c	2007-01-24 20:19:28.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc6/mm/slab.c	2007-01-29 13:08:05.773928988 -0600
@@ -1269,6 +1269,10 @@ static int __cpuinit cpuup_callback(stru
 		break;
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 	case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
+		/* Shutdown cache reaper */
+		cancel_rearming_delayed_work(&per_cpu(reap_work, cpu));
+		per_cpu(reap_work, cpu).work.func = NULL;
+
 		mutex_lock(&cache_chain_mutex);
 		break;
 	case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
-
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