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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-01-18 02:53:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -0700 |
| commit | 5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac (patch) | |
| tree | b7ba2116923723e193dfe7c633ec10056c6b1b53 /mm/slob.c | |
| parent | 4495c08e84729385774601b5146d51d9e5849f81 (diff) | |
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mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
A group of Linux kernel hackers reported chasing a bug that resulted
from their assumption that SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU provided an existence
guarantee, that is, that no block from such a slab would be reallocated
during an RCU read-side critical section. Of course, that is not the
case. Instead, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU only prevents freeing of an entire
slab of blocks.
However, there is a phrase for this, namely "type safety". This commit
therefore renames SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU in order
to avoid future instances of this sort of confusion.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
[ paulmck: Add comments mentioning the old name, as requested by Eric
Dumazet, in order to help people familiar with the old name find
the new one. ]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slob.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slob.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c index eac04d4357ec..1bae78d71096 100644 --- a/mm/slob.c +++ b/mm/slob.c @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static inline void clear_slob_page_free(struct page *sp) /* * struct slob_rcu is inserted at the tail of allocated slob blocks, which - * were created with a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU slab. slob_rcu is used to free + * were created with a SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slab. slob_rcu is used to free * the block using call_rcu. */ struct slob_rcu { @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize); int __kmem_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *c, unsigned long flags) { - if (flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU) { + if (flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU) { /* leave room for rcu footer at the end of object */ c->size += sizeof(struct slob_rcu); } @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static void kmem_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head) void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b) { kmemleak_free_recursive(b, c->flags); - if (unlikely(c->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) { + if (unlikely(c->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU)) { struct slob_rcu *slob_rcu; slob_rcu = b + (c->size - sizeof(struct slob_rcu)); slob_rcu->size = c->size; |