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Message-ID: <CAADnVQJBKCHJKqjNe9AHEnSbvAZ5Jf_0ULw=v7v3BEW8Pv=_6w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:04:00 -0700
From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, 
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, 
	Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, 
	Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, 
	KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>, Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, 
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, 
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, 
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>, 
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH bpf-next 1/3] bpf: Add kmem_cache iterator

On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 11:41 AM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
> +static void *kmem_cache_iter_seq_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t *pos)
> +{
> +       loff_t cnt = 0;
> +       struct kmem_cache *s = NULL;
> +
> +       mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);

It would be better to find a way to iterate slabs without holding
the mutex for the duration of the loop.
Maybe use refcnt to hold the kmem_cache while bpf prog is looking at it?

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