From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm/slub: remove slab_lock() usage for debug operations
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:04:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb9d9cc5-0daa-765c-ae7c-3892d45c50e2@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220812091426.18418-4-vbabka@suse.cz>
On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> All alloc and free operations on debug caches are now serialized by
> n->list_lock, so we can remove slab_lock() usage in validate_slab()
> and list_slab_objects() as those also happen under n->list_lock.
>
> Note the usage in list_slab_objects() could happen even on non-debug
> caches, but only during cache shutdown time so there should not be any
> parallel freeing activity anymore. Except for buggy slab users, but in
> that case the slab_lock() would not help against the common cmpxchg
> based fast paths (in non-debug caches) anyway.
>
> Also adjust documentation comments accordingly.
>
> Suggested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-15 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-12 9:14 [PATCH 0/5] fix validation races and cleanup locking Vlastimil Babka
2022-08-12 9:14 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/slub: restrict sysfs validation to debug caches and make it safe Vlastimil Babka
2022-08-14 14:39 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-08-23 16:39 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-08-12 9:16 ` [PATCH 0/5] fix validation races and cleanup locking Vlastimil Babka
[not found] ` <20220812091426.18418-2-vbabka@suse.cz>
2022-08-14 13:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm/slub: move free_debug_processing() further Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-08-15 0:03 ` David Rientjes
[not found] ` <20220812091426.18418-4-vbabka@suse.cz>
2022-08-14 14:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm/slub: remove slab_lock() usage for debug operations Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-08-15 0:04 ` David Rientjes [this message]
[not found] ` <20220812091426.18418-6-vbabka@suse.cz>
2022-08-15 0:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm/slub: simplify __cmpxchg_double_slab() and slab_[un]lock() David Rientjes
[not found] ` <20220812091426.18418-5-vbabka@suse.cz>
2022-08-15 0:03 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm/slub: convert object_map_lock to non-raw spinlock David Rientjes
2022-08-15 12:53 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
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