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Message-ID: <20210525101320.GJ30378@techsingularity.net>
Date:   Tue, 25 May 2021 11:13:20 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 01/26] mm, slub: allocate private object map for sysfs
 listings

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 01:39:21AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Slub has a static spinlock protected bitmap for marking which objects are on
> freelist when it wants to list them, for situations where dynamically
> allocating such map can lead to recursion or locking issues, and on-stack
> bitmap would be too large.
> 
> The handlers of sysfs files alloc_calls and free_calls also currently use this
> shared bitmap, but their syscall context makes it straightforward to allocate a
> private map before entering locked sections, so switch these processing paths
> to use a private bitmap.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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