Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - Various misc bits
 - kmemleak fixes
 - small befs, codafs, cifs, efs, freexxfs, hfsplus, minixfs, reiserfs things
 - fanotify
 - I appear to have become SuperH maintainer
 - ocfs2 updates
 - direct-io tweaks
 - a bit of the MM queue
 - printk updates
 - MAINTAINERS maintenance
 - some backlight things
 - lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - the rtc queue
 - nilfs2 updates
 - Small Documentation/ updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (237 commits)
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches: remove references to patch-scripts
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update some dead URLs
  Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt: remove changelog reference
  Documentation/kmemleak.txt: updates
  fs/reiserfs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache
  fs/reiserfs: move prototype declaration to header file
  fs/hfsplus/attributes.c: add __init to hfsplus_create_attr_tree_cache()
  fs/hfsplus/extents.c: fix concurrent acess of alloc_blocks
  fs/hfsplus/extents.c: remove unused variable in hfsplus_get_block
  nilfs2: update project's web site in nilfs2.txt
  nilfs2: update MAINTAINERS file entries fix
  nilfs2: verify metadata sizes read from disk
  nilfs2: add FITRIM ioctl support for nilfs2
  nilfs2: add nilfs_sufile_trim_fs to trim clean segs
  nilfs2: implementation of NILFS_IOCTL_SET_SUINFO ioctl
  nilfs2: add nilfs_sufile_set_suinfo to update segment usage
  nilfs2: add struct nilfs_suinfo_update and flags
  nilfs2: update MAINTAINERS file entries
  fs/coda/inode.c: add __init to init_inodecache()
  BEFS: logging cleanup
  ...

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 25f14ad8f817..fe6d7be22ef0 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1684,7 +1684,7 @@ static void *get_any_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags,
 		return NULL;
 
 	do {
-		cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed();
+		cpuset_mems_cookie = read_mems_allowed_begin();
 		zonelist = node_zonelist(slab_node(), flags);
 		for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, zonelist, high_zoneidx) {
 			struct kmem_cache_node *n;
@@ -1696,19 +1696,17 @@ static void *get_any_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags,
 				object = get_partial_node(s, n, c, flags);
 				if (object) {
 					/*
-					 * Return the object even if
-					 * put_mems_allowed indicated that
-					 * the cpuset mems_allowed was
-					 * updated in parallel. It's a
-					 * harmless race between the alloc
-					 * and the cpuset update.
+					 * Don't check read_mems_allowed_retry()
+					 * here - if mems_allowed was updated in
+					 * parallel, that was a harmless race
+					 * between allocation and the cpuset
+					 * update
 					 */
-					put_mems_allowed(cpuset_mems_cookie);
 					return object;
 				}
 			}
 		}
-	} while (!put_mems_allowed(cpuset_mems_cookie));
+	} while (read_mems_allowed_retry(cpuset_mems_cookie));
 #endif
 	return NULL;
 }
@@ -3239,8 +3237,9 @@ int __kmem_cache_shutdown(struct kmem_cache *s)
 
 	if (!rc) {
 		/*
-		 * We do the same lock strategy around sysfs_slab_add, see
-		 * __kmem_cache_create. Because this is pretty much the last
+		 * Since slab_attr_store may take the slab_mutex, we should
+		 * release the lock while removing the sysfs entry in order to
+		 * avoid a deadlock. Because this is pretty much the last
 		 * operation we do and the lock will be released shortly after
 		 * that in slab_common.c, we could just move sysfs_slab_remove
 		 * to a later point in common code. We should do that when we
@@ -3780,10 +3779,7 @@ int __kmem_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)
 		return 0;
 
 	memcg_propagate_slab_attrs(s);
-	mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
 	err = sysfs_slab_add(s);
-	mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
-
 	if (err)
 		kmem_cache_close(s);