From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:47:09 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: SLUB: fix locking for hotplug callbacks
X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27390bc335ff86d92c3819cc28035fde23d1a9c2;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git

SLUB: fix locking for hotplug callbacks

Hotplug callbacks are performed with interrupts enabled.  Slub requires
interrupts to be disabled for flushing caches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 238c5a6ee896..51663a3c3c24 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2607,6 +2607,19 @@ static void for_all_slabs(void (*func)(struct kmem_cache *, int), int cpu)
 	up_read(&slub_lock);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Version of __flush_cpu_slab for the case that interrupts
+ * are enabled.
+ */
+static void cpu_slab_flush(struct kmem_cache *s, int cpu)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	__flush_cpu_slab(s, cpu);
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
 /*
  * Use the cpu notifier to insure that the cpu slabs are flushed when
  * necessary.
@@ -2621,7 +2634,7 @@ static int __cpuinit slab_cpuup_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
 	case CPU_UP_CANCELED_FROZEN:
 	case CPU_DEAD:
 	case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN:
-		for_all_slabs(__flush_cpu_slab, cpu);
+		for_all_slabs(cpu_slab_flush, cpu);
 		break;
 	default:
 		break;