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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-01-18 02:53:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -0700 |
| commit | 5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac (patch) | |
| tree | b7ba2116923723e193dfe7c633ec10056c6b1b53 /mm/slab.c | |
| parent | 4495c08e84729385774601b5146d51d9e5849f81 (diff) | |
mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
A group of Linux kernel hackers reported chasing a bug that resulted
from their assumption that SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU provided an existence
guarantee, that is, that no block from such a slab would be reallocated
during an RCU read-side critical section. Of course, that is not the
case. Instead, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU only prevents freeing of an entire
slab of blocks.
However, there is a phrase for this, namely "type safety". This commit
therefore renames SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU in order
to avoid future instances of this sort of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
[ paulmck: Add comments mentioning the old name, as requested by Eric
Dumazet, in order to help people familiar with the old name find
the new one. ]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 807d86c76908..93c827864862 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ static void slab_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct page *page) freelist = page->freelist; slab_destroy_debugcheck(cachep, page); - if (unlikely(cachep->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) + if (unlikely(cachep->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU)) call_rcu(&page->rcu_head, kmem_rcu_free); else kmem_freepages(cachep, page); @@ -1924,7 +1924,7 @@ static bool set_objfreelist_slab_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, cachep->num = 0; - if (cachep->ctor || flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU) + if (cachep->ctor || flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU) return false; left = calculate_slab_order(cachep, size, @@ -2030,7 +2030,7 @@ __kmem_cache_create (struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long flags) if (size < 4096 || fls(size - 1) == fls(size-1 + REDZONE_ALIGN + 2 * sizeof(unsigned long long))) flags |= SLAB_RED_ZONE | SLAB_STORE_USER; - if (!(flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) + if (!(flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU)) flags |= SLAB_POISON; #endif #endif |