[PATCH -mm] slab: delete cache from list after __kmem_cache_shutdown succeeds

From: Vladimir Davydov
Date: Thu May 15 2014 - 09:08:21 EST


Currently, on kmem_cache_destroy we delete the cache from the slab_list
before __kmem_cache_shutdown, inserting it back to the list on failure.
Initially, this was done, because we could release the slab_mutex in
__kmem_cache_shutdown to delete sysfs slub entry, but since commit
41a212859a4d ("slub: use sysfs'es release mechanism for kmem_cache") we
remove sysfs entry later in kmem_cache_destroy after dropping the
slab_mutex, so that no implementation of __kmem_cache_shutdown can ever
release the lock. Therefore we can simplify the code a bit by moving
list_del after __kmem_cache_shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab_common.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 48fafb61f35e..735e01a0db6f 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -346,15 +346,15 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
if (memcg_cleanup_cache_params(s) != 0)
goto out_unlock;

- list_del(&s->list);
if (__kmem_cache_shutdown(s) != 0) {
- list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches);
printk(KERN_ERR "kmem_cache_destroy %s: "
"Slab cache still has objects\n", s->name);
dump_stack();
goto out_unlock;
}

+ list_del(&s->list);
+
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
if (s->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)
rcu_barrier();
--
1.7.10.4

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