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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-01-18 11:53:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-04-18 20:42:36 +0200 |
| commit | 5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac (patch) | |
| tree | b7ba2116923723e193dfe7c633ec10056c6b1b53 /fs | |
| parent | Linux 4.11-rc2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac.tar.xz linux-5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac.zip | |
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 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jbd2/journal.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/signalfd.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index a1a359bfcc9c..7f8f962454e5 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -2340,7 +2340,7 @@ static int jbd2_journal_init_journal_head_cache(void) jbd2_journal_head_cache = kmem_cache_create("jbd2_journal_head", sizeof(struct journal_head), 0, /* offset */ - SLAB_TEMPORARY | SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, + SLAB_TEMPORARY | SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, NULL); /* ctor */ retval = 0; if (!jbd2_journal_head_cache) { diff --git a/fs/signalfd.c b/fs/signalfd.c index 270221fcef42..7e3d71109f51 100644 --- a/fs/signalfd.c +++ b/fs/signalfd.c @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ void signalfd_cleanup(struct sighand_struct *sighand) /* * The lockless check can race with remove_wait_queue() in progress, * but in this case its caller should run under rcu_read_lock() and - * sighand_cachep is SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, we can safely return. + * sighand_cachep is SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, we can safely return. */ if (likely(!waitqueue_active(wqh))) return; |