From: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> We will have unfrozen slabs out of the node partial list later, so we need a freeze_slab() function to freeze the partial slab and get its freelist. Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 1880b483350e..edf567971679 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -3098,6 +3098,33 @@ static inline void *get_freelist(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab) return freelist; } +/* + * Freeze the partial slab and return the pointer to the freelist. + */ +static inline void *freeze_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab) +{ + struct slab new; + unsigned long counters; + void *freelist; + + do { + freelist = slab->freelist; + counters = slab->counters; + + new.counters = counters; + VM_BUG_ON(new.frozen); + + new.inuse = slab->objects; + new.frozen = 1; + + } while (!slab_update_freelist(s, slab, + freelist, counters, + NULL, new.counters, + "freeze_slab")); + + return freelist; +} + /* * Slow path. The lockless freelist is empty or we need to perform * debugging duties. -- 2.20.1