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SLUB: Move sysfs operations outside of slub_lock
authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:03:31 +0000 (04:03 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:23:02 +0000 (10:23 -0700)
Sysfs can do a gazillion things when called.  Make sure that we do not call
any sysfs functions while holding the slub_lock.

Just protect the essentials:

1. The list of all slab caches
2. The kmalloc_dma array
3. The ref counters of the slabs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slub.c

index f976d2866e734f2cc84a880555fcbfa8fe377e34..1c5d6a068556c4adb038201c92adfc7fa5574050 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2192,12 +2192,13 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
        s->refcount--;
        if (!s->refcount) {
                list_del(&s->list);
+               up_write(&slub_lock);
                if (kmem_cache_close(s))
                        WARN_ON(1);
                sysfs_slab_remove(s);
                kfree(s);
-       }
-       up_write(&slub_lock);
+       } else
+               up_write(&slub_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_destroy);
 
@@ -2679,25 +2680,26 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
                 */
                s->objsize = max(s->objsize, (int)size);
                s->inuse = max_t(int, s->inuse, ALIGN(size, sizeof(void *)));
+               up_write(&slub_lock);
                if (sysfs_slab_alias(s, name))
                        goto err;
-       } else {
-               s = kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (s && kmem_cache_open(s, GFP_KERNEL, name,
+               return s;
+       }
+       s = kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (s) {
+               if (kmem_cache_open(s, GFP_KERNEL, name,
                                size, align, flags, ctor)) {
-                       if (sysfs_slab_add(s)) {
-                               kfree(s);
-                               goto err;
-                       }
                        list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches);
-               } else
-                       kfree(s);
+                       up_write(&slub_lock);
+                       if (sysfs_slab_add(s))
+                               goto err;
+                       return s;
+               }
+               kfree(s);
        }
        up_write(&slub_lock);
-       return s;
 
 err:
-       up_write(&slub_lock);
        if (flags & SLAB_PANIC)
                panic("Cannot create slabcache %s\n", name);
        else