linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: lock slub page when listing objects

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Date:   Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:06:42 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: lock slub page when listing objects

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 08:31:11PM -0600, Yu Zhao wrote:
> Though I have no idea what the side effect of such race would be,
> apparently we want to prevent the free list from being changed
> while debugging the objects.

Codewise looks good to me. But commit message can be better.

Can we repharase it to indicate that slab_lock is required to protect
page->objects?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov