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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slub.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slub.c | 35 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index fe376fe1f4fe..e7ed6f8304f4 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -2398,13 +2398,24 @@ redo: * reading from one cpu area. That does not matter as long * as we end up on the original cpu again when doing the cmpxchg. * - * Preemption is disabled for the retrieval of the tid because that - * must occur from the current processor. We cannot allow rescheduling - * on a different processor between the determination of the pointer - * and the retrieval of the tid. + * We should guarantee that tid and kmem_cache are retrieved on + * the same cpu. It could be different if CONFIG_PREEMPT so we need + * to check if it is matched or not. */ - preempt_disable(); - c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab); + do { + tid = this_cpu_read(s->cpu_slab->tid); + c = raw_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab); + } while (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && unlikely(tid != c->tid)); + + /* + * Irqless object alloc/free algorithm used here depends on sequence + * of fetching cpu_slab's data. tid should be fetched before anything + * on c to guarantee that object and page associated with previous tid + * won't be used with current tid. If we fetch tid first, object and + * page could be one associated with next tid and our alloc/free + * request will be failed. In this case, we will retry. So, no problem. + */ + barrier(); /* * The transaction ids are globally unique per cpu and per operation on @@ -2412,8 +2423,6 @@ redo: * occurs on the right processor and that there was no operation on the * linked list in between. */ - tid = c->tid; - preempt_enable(); object = c->freelist; page = c->page; @@ -2659,11 +2668,13 @@ redo: * data is retrieved via this pointer. If we are on the same cpu * during the cmpxchg then the free will succedd. */ - preempt_disable(); - c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab); + do { + tid = this_cpu_read(s->cpu_slab->tid); + c = raw_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab); + } while (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && unlikely(tid != c->tid)); - tid = c->tid; - preempt_enable(); + /* Same with comment on barrier() in slab_alloc_node() */ + barrier(); if (likely(page == c->page)) { set_freepointer(s, object, c->freelist); |