In current implementation, after unfreezing, we doesn't touch oldpage, so it remain 'NOT NULL'. When we call this_cpu_cmpxchg() with this old oldpage, this_cpu_cmpxchg() is mostly be failed. We can change value of oldpage to NULL after unfreezing, because unfreeze_partial() ensure that all the cpu partial slabs is removed from cpu partial list. In this time, we could expect that this_cpu_cmpxchg is mostly succeed. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 92f1c0e..531d8ed 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -1968,6 +1968,7 @@ int put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int drain) local_irq_save(flags); unfreeze_partials(s); local_irq_restore(flags); + oldpage = NULL; pobjects = 0; pages = 0; stat(s, CPU_PARTIAL_DRAIN); -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>