Simplifies the locking by moveing the slab_add_sysfs after all locks have been dropped and eases the upcoming move to provide sysfs support for all allocators. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/mm/slab.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slab.h 2012-08-01 14:50:14.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slab.h 2012-08-01 14:50:27.310260888 -0500 @@ -39,10 +39,13 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)); +extern int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s); #else static inline struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *)) { return NULL; } +static inline int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s) { return 0; } + #endif Index: linux-2.6/mm/slab_common.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slab_common.c 2012-08-01 14:50:14.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slab_common.c 2012-08-01 14:53:49.693908703 -0500 @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ { struct kmem_cache *s = NULL; char *n; + int alias = 0; #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM if (!name || in_interrupt() || size < sizeof(void *) || @@ -99,8 +100,10 @@ #endif s = __kmem_cache_alias(name, size, align, flags, ctor); - if (s) + if (s) { + alias = 1; goto oops; + } n = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); if (!n) @@ -125,6 +128,9 @@ if (!s && (flags & SLAB_PANIC)) panic("kmem_cache_create: Failed to create slab '%s'\n", name); + if (!alias) + sysfs_slab_add(s); + return s; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_create); Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2012-08-01 14:50:16.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2012-08-01 14:52:12.944165176 -0500 @@ -202,12 +202,10 @@ enum track_item { TRACK_ALLOC, TRACK_FREE }; #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS -static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *); static int sysfs_slab_alias(struct kmem_cache *, const char *); static void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *); #else -static inline int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s) { return 0; } static inline int sysfs_slab_alias(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *p) { return 0; } static inline void sysfs_slab_remove(struct kmem_cache *s) { } @@ -3948,16 +3946,7 @@ if (s) { if (kmem_cache_open(s, name, size, align, flags, ctor)) { - int r; - - mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex); - r = sysfs_slab_add(s); - mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); - - if (!r) - return s; - - kmem_cache_close(s); + return s; } kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s); } @@ -5260,7 +5249,7 @@ return name; } -static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s) +int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s) { int err; const char *name; -- 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>