[PATCH 8/9] slab: destroy a slab without holding any alien cache lock

[Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>]

I haven't heard that this alien cache lock is contended, but to reduce
chance of contention would be better generally. And with this change,
we can simplify complex lockdep annotation in slab code.
In the following patch, it will be implemented.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index ec1df4c..9c9d4d4 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -1000,9 +1000,9 @@ static void free_alien_cache(struct alien_cache **alc_ptr)
 }
 
 static void __drain_alien_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
-				struct array_cache *ac, int node)
+				struct array_cache *ac, int node,
+				struct list_head *list)
 {
-	LIST_HEAD(list);
 	struct kmem_cache_node *n = cachep->node[node];
 
 	if (ac->avail) {
@@ -1015,10 +1015,9 @@ static void __drain_alien_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
 		if (n->shared)
 			transfer_objects(n->shared, ac, ac->limit);
 
-		free_block(cachep, ac->entry, ac->avail, node, &list);
+		free_block(cachep, ac->entry, ac->avail, node, list);
 		ac->avail = 0;
 		spin_unlock(&n->list_lock);
-		slabs_destroy(cachep, &list);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1036,8 +1035,11 @@ static void reap_alien(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct kmem_cache_node *n)
 		if (alc) {
 			ac = &alc->ac;
 			if (ac->avail && spin_trylock_irq(&alc->lock)) {
-				__drain_alien_cache(cachep, ac, node);
+				LIST_HEAD(list);
+
+				__drain_alien_cache(cachep, ac, node, &list);
 				spin_unlock_irq(&alc->lock);
+				slabs_destroy(cachep, &list);
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -1054,10 +1056,13 @@ static void drain_alien_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
 	for_each_online_node(i) {
 		alc = alien[i];
 		if (alc) {
+			LIST_HEAD(list);
+
 			ac = &alc->ac;
 			spin_lock_irqsave(&alc->lock, flags);
-			__drain_alien_cache(cachep, ac, i);
+			__drain_alien_cache(cachep, ac, i, &list);
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&alc->lock, flags);
+			slabs_destroy(cachep, &list);
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -1088,10 +1093,11 @@ static inline int cache_free_alien(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
 		spin_lock(&alien->lock);
 		if (unlikely(ac->avail == ac->limit)) {
 			STATS_INC_ACOVERFLOW(cachep);
-			__drain_alien_cache(cachep, ac, nodeid);
+			__drain_alien_cache(cachep, ac, nodeid, &list);
 		}
 		ac_put_obj(cachep, ac, objp);
 		spin_unlock(&alien->lock);
+		slabs_destroy(cachep, &list);
 	} else {
 		spin_lock(&(cachep->node[nodeid])->list_lock);
 		free_block(cachep, &objp, 1, nodeid, &list);
-- 
1.7.9.5

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