linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] slub: fix cpu hotplug offline/online path

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710101037210.7158@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:39:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] slub: fix cpu hotplug offline/online path

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Akinobu Mita wrote:

> I couldn't use get_cpu_slab() for that check. But I reviced the patch to do
> what you said.

Why would get_cpu_slab not work?

> +	if (per_cpu(kmem_cache_cpu_free, cpu)) {
> +		/* Already initialized once */
> +		return;
> +	}
> +

kmem_cache_cpu_free is not only NULL if the cpu is not up yet but it is 
also NULL if the per cpu pool of kmem_cache_cpu structures was 
exhausted.
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