• Steven Rostedt's avatar
    slub: do not assert not having lock in removing freed partial · 1e4dd946
    Steven Rostedt authored
    Vladimir reported the following issue:
    
    Commit c65c1877 ("slub: use lockdep_assert_held") requires
    remove_partial() to be called with n->list_lock held, but free_partial()
    called from kmem_cache_close() on cache destruction does not follow this
    rule, leading to a warning:
    
      WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2787 at mm/slub.c:1536 __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x1b2/0x1f0()
      Modules linked in:
      CPU: 0 PID: 2787 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W    3.14.0-rc1-mm1+ #1
      Hardware name:
       0000000000000600 ffff88003ae1dde8 ffffffff816d9583 0000000000000600
       0000000000000000 ffff88003ae1de28 ffffffff8107c107 0000000000000000
       ffff880037ab2b00 ffff88007c240d30 ffffea0001ee5280 ffffea0001ee52a0
      Call Trace:
        __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x1b2/0x1f0
        kmem_cache_destroy+0x43/0xf0
        xfs_destroy_zones+0x103/0x110 [xfs]
        exit_xfs_fs+0x38/0x4e4 [xfs]
        SyS_delete_module+0x19a/0x1f0
        system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
    
    His solution was to add a spinlock in order to quiet lockdep.  Although
    there would be no contention to adding the lock, that lock also requires
    disabling of interrupts which will have a larger impact on the system.
    
    Instead of adding a spinlock to a location where it is not needed for
    lockdep, make a __remove_partial() function that does not test if the
    list_lock is held, as no one should have it due to it being freed.
    
    Also added a __add_partial() function that does not do the lock
    validation either, as it is not needed for the creation of the cache.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    1e4dd946
slub.c 127 KB