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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-01-18 02:53:44 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-04-18 11:42:36 -0700
commit5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac (patch)
treeb7ba2116923723e193dfe7c633ec10056c6b1b53 /mm/slob.c
parent4495c08e84729385774601b5146d51d9e5849f81 (diff)
downloadlinux-5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac.tar.bz2
mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
A group of Linux kernel hackers reported chasing a bug that resulted from their assumption that SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU provided an existence guarantee, that is, that no block from such a slab would be reallocated during an RCU read-side critical section. Of course, that is not the case. Instead, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU only prevents freeing of an entire slab of blocks. However, there is a phrase for this, namely "type safety". This commit therefore renames SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU in order to avoid future instances of this sort of confusion. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> [ paulmck: Add comments mentioning the old name, as requested by Eric Dumazet, in order to help people familiar with the old name find the new one. ] Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slob.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slob.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index eac04d4357ec..1bae78d71096 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static inline void clear_slob_page_free(struct page *sp)
/*
* struct slob_rcu is inserted at the tail of allocated slob blocks, which
- * were created with a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU slab. slob_rcu is used to free
+ * were created with a SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slab. slob_rcu is used to free
* the block using call_rcu.
*/
struct slob_rcu {
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);
int __kmem_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *c, unsigned long flags)
{
- if (flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU) {
+ if (flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU) {
/* leave room for rcu footer at the end of object */
c->size += sizeof(struct slob_rcu);
}
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static void kmem_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b)
{
kmemleak_free_recursive(b, c->flags);
- if (unlikely(c->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) {
+ if (unlikely(c->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU)) {
struct slob_rcu *slob_rcu;
slob_rcu = b + (c->size - sizeof(struct slob_rcu));
slob_rcu->size = c->size;