From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx110.postini.com [74.125.245.110]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65ADC6B0083 for ; Wed, 9 May 2012 12:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-vb0-f45.google.com with SMTP id fn1so735317vbb.18 for ; Wed, 09 May 2012 09:41:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1336503339-18722-1-git-send-email-pshelar@nicira.com> <1336504276.3752.2600.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:41:05 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: sl[auo]b: Use atomic bit operations to update page-flags. From: Pravin Shelar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Eric Dumazet , penberg@kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, jesse@nicira.com, abhide@nicira.com On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2012, Eric Dumazet wrote: > >> On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 11:55 -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote: >> > Transparent huge pages can change page->flags (PG_compound_lock) >> > without taking Slab lock. So sl[auo]b need to use atomic bit >> > operation while changing page->flags. >> > Specificly this patch fixes race between compound_unlock and slab >> > functions which does page-flags update. This can occur when >> > get_page/put_page is called on page from slab object. >> >> >> But should get_page()/put_page() be called on a page own by slub ? > > Can occur in slab allocators if the slab memory is used for DMA. I dont > like the performance impact of the atomics. In particular slab_unlock() in > slub is or used to be a hot path item. It is still hot on arches that do > not support this_cpu_cmpxchg_double. With the cmpxchg_double only the > debug mode is affected. > I agree this would impact performance. I am not sure how else we can fix this issue. As far as slab_unlock in hot path case is concerned, it is more likely to corrupt page->flags in that case. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org