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slub: use irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg for put_cpu_partial

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The cmpxchg must be irq safe. The fallback for this_cpu_cmpxchg only
disables preemption which results in per cpu partial page operation
potentially failing on non x86 platforms.

This patch fixes the following problem reported by Christian Kujau:

  I seem to hit it with heavy disk & cpu IO is in progress on this
  PowerBook
  G4. Full dmesg & .config: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oops/

  I've enabled some debug options and now it really points to slub.c:2166

    http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oops/oops4m.jpg

  With debug options enabled I'm currently in the xmon debugger, not sure
  what to make of it yet, I'll try to get something useful out of it :)

Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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Christoph Lameter 2011-11-23 09:14:38 -06:00 committed by Pekka Enberg
parent 9ada19342b
commit 42d623a8cd
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -1978,7 +1978,7 @@ int put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int drain)
page->pobjects = pobjects;
page->next = oldpage;
} while (this_cpu_cmpxchg(s->cpu_slab->partial, oldpage, page) != oldpage);
} while (irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg(s->cpu_slab->partial, oldpage, page) != oldpage);
stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_FREE);
return pobjects;
}