The patch titled
Subject: mm-slub-fix-a-deadlock-in-show_slab_objects-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-slub-fix-a-deadlock-in-show_slab_objects-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slub-fix-a-deadlock-in-show_slab_objects-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slub-fix-a-deadlock-in-show_slab_objects-fix.patch
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-slub-fix-a-deadlock-in-show_slab_objects-fix
tweak comment text
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-fix-a-deadlock-in-show_slab_objects-fix
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -4850,13 +4850,13 @@ static ssize_t show_slab_objects(struct
}
/*
- * It is not possible to take "mem_hotplug_lock" here, as it has already held
- * "kernfs_mutex" which could race with the lock order:
+ * It is not possible to take "mem_hotplug_lock" here, we already hold
+ * "kernfs_mutex" which conflict with the lock order:
*
* mem_hotplug_lock->slab_mutex->kernfs_mutex
*
- * In the worest case, it might be mis-calculated while doing NUMA node
- * hotplug, but it shall be corrected by later reads of the same files.
+ * In the worst case, the results may me miscalculated while doing NUMA node
+ * hotplug, but they shall be corrected by later reads of the same files.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
if (flags & SO_ALL) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
ocfs2-clear-zero-in-unaligned-direct-io-checkpatch-fixes.patch
fs-ocfs2-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereferences-in-ocfs2_xa_prepare_entry-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-fix-a-crash-in-free_pages_prepare-fix.patch
mm-vmpressure-fix-a-signedness-bug-in-vmpressure_register_event-fix.patch
mm-vmpressure-fix-a-signedness-bug-in-vmpressure_register_event-fix-fix.patch
mm-slb-guarantee-natural-alignment-for-kmallocpower-of-two-fix.patch
ocfs2-protect-extent-tree-in-the-ocfs2_prepare_inode_for_write-checkpatch-fixes.patch
mm.patch
mm-slub-fix-a-deadlock-in-show_slab_objects-fix.patch
mm-pgmap-use-correct-alignment-when-looking-at-first-pfn-from-a-region-checkpatch-fixes.patch
mm-oom-avoid-printk-iteration-under-rcu-fix.patch
hugetlb-remove-duplicated-code-checkpatch-fixes.patch
linux-next-rejects.patch
diff-sucks.patch
drivers-tty-serial-sh-scic-suppress-warning.patch
kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch
