The comments do not explain correctly what is going on. Sorry Oleg but it
seems that the protection of the assignment to reap_work is different that
what we initially thought.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: current/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- current.orig/mm/slab.c 2007-02-01 15:07:09.000000000 -0800
+++ current/mm/slab.c 2007-02-01 15:09:21.000000000 -0800
@@ -1274,10 +1274,12 @@ static int __cpuinit cpuup_callback(stru
case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
/*
* Shutdown cache reaper. Note that the cache_chain_mutex is
- * held so that cache_reap() cannot modify reap_work
- * concurrently.
+ * held so that if cache_reap() is invoked it cannot do
+ * anything expensive but will only modify reap_work
+ * and reschedule the timer.
*/
cancel_rearming_delayed_work(&per_cpu(reap_work, cpu));
+ /* Now the cache_reaper is guaranteed to be not running. */
per_cpu(reap_work, cpu).work.func = NULL;
break;
case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
-
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