linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] slub: separate out sysfs_slab_release() from sysfs_slab

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:00:12 +0300
From:   Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...antool.org>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     cl@...ux.com, penberg@...nel.org, rientjes@...gle.com,
        iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jsvana@...com,
        hannes@...xchg.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] slub: separate out sysfs_slab_release() from
 sysfs_slab_remove()

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 05:54:49PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> From 3b0cdd93b2d9bdea62ea6681e612bdae7a40d883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:53:18 -0500
> 
> Separate out slub sysfs removal and release, and call the former
> earlier from __kmem_cache_shutdown().  There's no reason to defer
> sysfs removal through RCU and this will later allow us to remove sysfs
> files way earlier during memory cgroup offline instead of release.
> 
> v2: Add slab_state >= FULL test to sysfs_slab_release() so that
>     kobject_put() is skipped for caches which aren't fully initialized
>     as before.  This most likely leaks the kmem_cache on init failure
>     as we're skipping the only release path.  Let's fix that up later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>