On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Geliang Tang wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 5d5aa3b..1a7d91c 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -2362,21 +2362,14 @@ static void drain_cpu_caches(struct kmem_cache 
> *cachep)
>  static int drain_freelist(struct kmem_cache *cache,
>                       struct kmem_cache_node *n, int tofree)
>  {
> -     struct list_head *p;
>       int nr_freed;
>       struct page *page;
>
>       nr_freed = 0;
> -     while (nr_freed < tofree && !list_empty(&n->slabs_free)) {
> +     while (nr_freed < tofree && !list_empty_careful(&n->slabs_free)) {
>
>               spin_lock_irq(&n->list_lock);
> -             p = n->slabs_free.prev;
> -             if (p == &n->slabs_free) {
> -                     spin_unlock_irq(&n->list_lock);
> -                     goto out;
> -             }
> -
> -             page = list_entry(p, struct page, lru);
> +             page = list_last_entry(&n->slabs_free, struct page, lru);

This is safe? Process could be rescheduled and lots of things could happen
before disabling irqs.
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