On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 5:43 PM Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 10:35:55PM +0800, sxwjean@xxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There is no need to do anything if sysfs_slab_alias() return nonzero
> > value after getting a mergeable cache.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2: Collect Reviewed-by tag from Muchun.
> > ---
> > mm/slub.c | 8 +++-----
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> > index d8d5abf49f5f..9444277d669a 100644
> > --- a/mm/slub.c
> > +++ b/mm/slub.c
> > @@ -4861,6 +4861,9 @@ __kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, unsigned int size, unsigned int align,
> >
> > s = find_mergeable(size, align, flags, name, ctor);
> > if (s) {
> > + if (sysfs_slab_alias(s, name))
> > + return NULL;
> > +
> > s->refcount++;
> >
>
> I think we should not expose sysfs attributes before initializing
> what can be read via sysfs attribute (object_size).
>
> > /*
> > @@ -4869,11 +4872,6 @@ __kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, unsigned int size, unsigned int align,
> > */
> > s->object_size = max(s->object_size, size);
>
> this calculation should be done before sysfs_slab_alias().
Yeah, understood. Should we restore s->object_size and s->inuse if
sysfs_slab_alias() returns non zero value?
Regards,
Xiongwwei
>
> Thanks,
> Hyeonggon
>
> > s->inuse = max(s->inuse, ALIGN(size, sizeof(void *)));
> > -
> > - if (sysfs_slab_alias(s, name)) {
> > - s->refcount--;
> > - s = NULL;
> > - }
> > }
> >
> > return s;
> > --
> > 2.30.2
> >
>
