linux-kernel - [patch 1/2] slqb: fix deadlock

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Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:47:36 +0100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: [patch 1/2] slqb: fix deadlock


Fix the lockdep error reported by Fengguang where down_read slqb_lock
is taken twice when reading /proc/slabinfo, with the possibility for a
deadlock.

Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
---
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slqb.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slqb.c	2009-03-02 17:42:09.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slqb.c	2009-03-02 17:44:10.000000000 +1100
@@ -3075,7 +3075,9 @@ static void __gather_stats(void *arg)
 	spin_unlock(&gather->lock);
 }
 
-static void gather_stats(struct kmem_cache *s, struct stats_gather *stats)
+/* must be called with slqb_lock held */
+static void gather_stats_locked(struct kmem_cache *s,
+				struct stats_gather *stats)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	int node;
@@ -3085,8 +3087,6 @@ static void gather_stats(struct kmem_cac
 	stats->s = s;
 	spin_lock_init(&stats->lock);
 
-	down_read(&slqb_lock); /* hold off hotplug */
-
 	on_each_cpu(__gather_stats, stats, 1);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
@@ -3115,10 +3115,15 @@ static void gather_stats(struct kmem_cac
 	}
 #endif
 
-	up_read(&slqb_lock);
-
 	stats->nr_objects = stats->nr_slabs * s->objects;
 }
+
+static void gather_stats(struct kmem_cache *s, struct stats_gather *stats)
+{
+	down_read(&slqb_lock); /* hold off hotplug */
+	gather_stats_locked(s, stats);
+	up_read(&slqb_lock);
+}
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -3171,7 +3176,7 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, vo
 
 	s = list_entry(p, struct kmem_cache, list);
 
-	gather_stats(s, &stats);
+	gather_stats_locked(s, &stats);
 
 	seq_printf(m, "%-17s %6lu %6lu %6u %4u %4d", s->name, stats.nr_inuse,
 			stats.nr_objects, s->size, s->objects, (1 << s->order));
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