This flags ensures that the pages will not be reused for non-bio allocations before the end of an RCU grace period. With that we can safely use a RCU lookup for bio polling as long as we are fine with occasionally polling the wrong device. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Mark Wunderlich <mark.wunderlich@xxxxxxxxx> --- block/bio.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c index a6fb6a0b42955..a48cf9d04b3c1 100644 --- a/block/bio.c +++ b/block/bio.c @@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ static struct bio_slab *create_bio_slab(unsigned int size) snprintf(bslab->name, sizeof(bslab->name), "bio-%d", size); bslab->slab = kmem_cache_create(bslab->name, size, - ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL); + ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, + SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, NULL); if (!bslab->slab) goto fail_alloc_slab; -- 2.30.2
