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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2012-06-09 02:40:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> | 2012-06-20 10:01:04 +0300 |
| commit | e7b691b085fda913830e5280ae6f724b2a63c824 (patch) | |
| tree | 9fbd380538f1c3fd5e36c5beeac35041351baf40 /include | |
| parent | 8c138bc00925521c4e764269db3a903bd2a51592 (diff) | |
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slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interrupt context
slab_node() could access current->mempolicy from interrupt context.
However there's a race condition during exit where the mempolicy
is first freed and then the pointer zeroed.
Using this from interrupts seems bogus anyways. The interrupt
will interrupt a random process and therefore get a random
mempolicy. Many times, this will be idle's, which noone can change.
Just disable this here and always use local for slab
from interrupts. I also cleaned up the callers of slab_node a bit
which always passed the same argument.
I believe the original mempolicy code did that in fact,
so it's likely a regression.
v2: send version with correct logic
v3: simplify. fix typo.
Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org
Cc: cl@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[tdmackey@twitter.com: Rework control flow based on feedback from
cl@linux.com, fix logic, and cleanup current task_struct reference]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Mackey <tdmackey@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mempolicy.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h index 4aa42732e47f..95b738c7abff 100644 --- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h +++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ extern struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma, extern bool init_nodemask_of_mempolicy(nodemask_t *mask); extern bool mempolicy_nodemask_intersects(struct task_struct *tsk, const nodemask_t *mask); -extern unsigned slab_node(struct mempolicy *policy); +extern unsigned slab_node(void); extern enum zone_type policy_zone; |