The patch titled
revert slab.c lockdep locking change
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
revert-slabc-lockdep-locking-change.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: revert slab.c lockdep locking change
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Chandra Seetharaman reported SLAB crashes caused by the slab.c lock
annotation patch. There is only one chunk of that patch that has a
material effect on the slab logic - this patch undoes that chunk.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.c | 9 ---------
1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/slab.c~revert-slabc-lockdep-locking-change mm/slab.c
--- a/mm/slab.c~revert-slabc-lockdep-locking-change
+++ a/mm/slab.c
@@ -3100,16 +3100,7 @@ static void free_block(struct kmem_cache
if (slabp->inuse == 0) {
if (l3->free_objects > l3->free_limit) {
l3->free_objects -= cachep->num;
- /*
- * It is safe to drop the lock. The slab is
- * no longer linked to the cache. cachep
- * cannot disappear - we are using it and
- * all destruction of caches must be
- * serialized properly by the user.
- */
- spin_unlock(&l3->list_lock);
slab_destroy(cachep, slabp);
- spin_lock(&l3->list_lock);
} else {
list_add(&slabp->list, &l3->slabs_free);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mingo@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
lockdep-annotate-the-sysfs-i_mutex-to-be-a-separate-class.patch
lockdep-hpet-rtc-fix.patch
revert-slabc-lockdep-locking-change.patch
disable-debugging-version-of-write_lock.patch
my-name-is-ingo-molnar-you-killed-my-make-allyesconfig-prepare-to-die.patch
lockdep-annotate-8390c-disable_irq-2.patch
lockdep-fix-sk_dst_check-deadlock.patch
lockdep-split-the-skb_queue_head_init-lock-class.patch
fix-deadlock-in-the-bluetooth-l2cap-layer.patch
revert-gregkh-pci-pci-test-that-drivers-properly-call-pci_set_master.patch
x86-re-enable-generic-numa.patch
i386-early-fault-handler.patch
lockdep-annotate-the-blkpg_del_partition-ioctl.patch
unexport-open_softirq.patch
fix-sighand-siglock-usage-in-kernel-acctc.patch
convert-idrs-internal-locking-to-_irqsave-variant.patch
sched-add-above-background-load-function.patch
mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch
sched-cleanup-remove-task_t-convert-to-struct-task_struct-prefetch.patch
genirq-convert-the-x86_64-architecture-to-irq-chips.patch
genirq-convert-the-i386-architecture-to-irq-chips.patch
genirq-irq-convert-the-move_irq-flag-from-a-32bit-word-to-a-single-bit.patch
genirq-irq-add-moved_masked_irq.patch
genirq-x86_64-irq-reenable-migrating-irqs-to-other-cpus.patch
genirq-msi-simplify-msi-enable-and-disable.patch
genirq-msi-make-the-msi-boolean-tests-return-either-0-or-1.patch
genirq-msi-implement-helper-functions-read_msi_msg-and-write_msi_msg.patch
genirq-msi-refactor-the-msi_ops.patch
genirq-msi-simplify-the-msi-irq-limit-policy.patch
genirq-irq-add-a-dynamic-irq-creation-api.patch
genirq-ia64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch
genirq-i386-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch
genirq-x86_64-irq-dynamic-irq-support.patch
genirq-msi-make-the-msi-code-irq-based-and-not-vector-based.patch
genirq-x86_64-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch
genirq-i386-irq-move-msi-message-composition-into-io_apicc.patch
genirq-msi-only-build-msi-apicc-on-ia64.patch
genirq-x86_64-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch
genirq-i386-irq-remove-the-msi-assumption-that-irq-==-vector.patch
genirq-irq-remove-msi-hacks.patch
genirq-irq-generalize-the-check-for-hardirq_bits.patch
genirq-x86_64-irq-make-the-external-irq-handlers-report-their-vector-not-the-irq-number.patch
genirq-x86_64-irq-make-vector_irq-per-cpu.patch
genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-gsi_irq_sharing.patch
genirq-x86_64-irq-kill-irq-compression.patch
detect-atomic-counter-underflows.patch
debug-shared-irqs.patch
make-frame_pointer-default=y.patch
mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch
vdso-print-fatal-signals.patch
vdso-improve-print_fatal_signals-support-by-adding-memory-maps.patch
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