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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:50:02 -0600 (CST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
cc: zhihua che <zhihua.che@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [Slub allocator] There are chances that kmem_cache_cpu->freelist
gets lost if the process happens to be rescheduled to a differenet cpu before
the local_irq_save() completes in __slab_alloc()
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> We miss a deactivate_slab() call or just deliver object if c->freelist
> is not null (and NUMA node matches)
>
> Untested patch :
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index ed3334d..923d238 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2166,6 +2166,12 @@ redo:
> goto new_slab;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
> + object = c->freelist;
> + if (object)
> + goto load_freelist;
> +#endif
> +
> stat(s, ALLOC_SLOWPATH);
>
> do {
Correct. Issue was introduced in 2.6.39.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
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