On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 12:28:14PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Hmmm.. If I separately allocate the kobject then I can no longer get to > > the kmem_cache structure from the kobject. > > > > I need to add a second kobject_del to sysfs_slab_remove() to make sysfs > > completely forget about the object? > > > > Probably should track down any remaining symlinks at that point and nuke > > them too. Isnt there some way to convince sysfs to remove the symlinks > > if the target vanishes? > > Don't bother with separate allocation. > > a) remove symlink when slab goes away
Ok. Need to think about how to code that. > b) instead of kfree() in slab removal do kobject_put() if you have sysfs stuff Hmmmm.... Okay. Patch follows but its strange to do a kobject_put after a kobject_del(). > c) have ->release() of these kobjects do kfree() In slab_ktype? --- mm/slub.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-12-27 15:09:38.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2007-12-27 15:21:12.000000000 -0800 @@ -247,7 +247,10 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kme static inline int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s) { return 0; } static inline int sysfs_slab_alias(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *p) { return 0; } -static inline void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s) {} +static inline void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s) +{ + kfree(s); +} #endif /******************************************************************** @@ -2322,7 +2325,6 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cach if (kmem_cache_close(s)) WARN_ON(1); sysfs_slab_remove(s); - kfree(s); } else up_write(&slub_lock); } @@ -3940,6 +3942,13 @@ static ssize_t slab_attr_store(struct ko return err; } +static void slab_release(struct kobject *kobj) +{ + struct kmem_cache *s = to_slab(kobj); + + kfree(s); +} + static struct sysfs_ops slab_sysfs_ops = { .show = slab_attr_show, .store = slab_attr_store, @@ -3947,6 +3956,7 @@ static struct sysfs_ops slab_sysfs_ops = static struct kobj_type slab_ktype = { .sysfs_ops = &slab_sysfs_ops, + .release = slab_release }; static int uevent_filter(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj) @@ -4048,6 +4058,7 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kme { kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE); kobject_del(&s->kobj); + kobject_put(&s->kobj); } /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/