On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Vladimir reported the following issue:
>
> Commit c65c1877bd68 ("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:
> [<ffffffff816d9583>] dump_stack+0x51/0x6e
> [<ffffffff8107c107>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xb0
> [<ffffffff8107c145>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
> [<ffffffff811c7fe2>] __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x1b2/0x1f0
> [<ffffffff811908d3>] kmem_cache_destroy+0x43/0xf0
> [<ffffffffa013a123>] xfs_destroy_zones+0x103/0x110 [xfs]
> [<ffffffffa0192b54>] exit_xfs_fs+0x38/0x4e4 [xfs]
> [<ffffffff811036fa>] SyS_delete_module+0x19a/0x1f0
> [<ffffffff816dfcd8>] ? retint_swapgs+0x13/0x1b
> [<ffffffff810d2125>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x105/0x1d0
> [<ffffffff81359efe>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
> [<ffffffff816e8539>] 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.
>
> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
> Reported-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@parallels.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
Thanks Steven!
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