The patch titled
slub: partly fix freeze in __slab_free
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
slub-partly-fix-freeze-in-__slab_free.patch
This patch was dropped because it was withdrawn
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: slub: partly fix freeze in __slab_free
From: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
My load tests on PowerPC freeze within minutes in __slab_free(). I
happened to try PPC first, didn't try without this fix on x86.
It looks as if the author was interrupted while devising the new
cmpxchg_double_slab() version of __slab_free(): its decision to
spin_lock_irqsave() depends on several uninitialized fields, and fixing
that (by copying page to new) mostly fixes it.
But I didn't think about it very much, and this may well not be what the
author intends; and I have seen a couple of much rarer freezes in
__slab_free() on PPC (not yet on x86) even after applying this.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penb...@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
Cc: <sta...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/slub.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN mm/slub.c~slub-partly-fix-freeze-in-__slab_free mm/slub.c
--- a/mm/slub.c~slub-partly-fix-freeze-in-__slab_free
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -2326,6 +2326,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cach
return;
do {
+ new = *page;
prior = page->freelist;
counters = page->counters;
set_freepointer(s, object, prior);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hu...@google.com are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
radix_tree-clean-away-saw_unset_tag-leftovers.patch
radix_tree-exceptional-entries-and-indices.patch
mm-let-swap-use-exceptional-entries.patch
tmpfs-demolish-old-swap-vector-support.patch
tmpfs-miscellaneous-trivial-cleanups.patch
tmpfs-copy-truncate_inode_pages_range.patch
tmpfs-convert-shmem_truncate_range-to-radix-swap.patch
tmpfs-convert-shmem_unuse_inode-to-radix-swap.patch
tmpfs-convert-shmem_getpage_gfp-to-radix-swap.patch
tmpfs-convert-mem_cgroup-shmem-to-radix-swap.patch
tmpfs-convert-shmem_writepage-and-enable-swap.patch
tmpfs-use-kmemdup-for-short-symlinks.patch
mm-a-few-small-updates-for-radix-swap.patch
mm-a-few-small-updates-for-radix-swap-fix.patch
tmpfs-radix_tree-locate_item-to-speed-up-swapoff.patch
mm-clarify-the-radix_tree-exceptional-cases.patch
tmpfs-expand-help-to-explain-value-of-tmpfs_posix_acl.patch
tmpfs-expand-help-to-explain-value-of-tmpfs_posix_acl-v3.patch
prio_tree-debugging-patch.patch
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