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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kmem_cache_destroy() badness with SLUB
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:47:09 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1006291046230.16135@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277688701.4200.159.camel@pasglop>

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> So if the slab is created -and- destroyed at, for example, arch_initcall
> time, then we hit a WARN in the kobject code, trying to dispose of a
> non-existing kobject.

Yes dont do that.

> Now, at first sight, just adding the same test to sysfs_slab_remove()
> would do the job... but it all seems very racy to me.

Yes lets leave as is. Dont remove slabs during boot.

> Shouldn't we have a mutex around those guys ?

At boot time?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-29 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-28  1:31 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-28  9:03 ` David Rientjes
2010-06-28 21:44   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-06-29 15:47 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2010-07-06  3:58 ` Roland Dreier

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