On Fri, 2021-07-09 at 21:28 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09 2021 at 07:21, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > static bool has_cpu_slab(int cpu, struct kmem_cache *s) > > @@ -2632,8 +2636,11 @@ static int slub_cpu_dead(unsigned int cp > > struct kmem_cache *s; > > > > mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); > > - list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) > > + list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) { > > + local_lock(&s->cpu_slab->lock); > > This one is odd. It locks the cpu_slab lock of the CPU which runs > thiscallback and then flushes the slab of the dead CPU. That spot I put back only because it used to exist, ergo I documented it as an afterthought. Yeah, it clearly has nada to do with the explosions, those were stopped by the other two as previously reported. -Mike