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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h index 72d1f9df71bd..8184a7cde272 100644 --- a/mm/slab.h +++ b/mm/slab.h @@ -160,14 +160,28 @@ static inline const char *cache_name(struct kmem_cache *s) return s->name; } +/* + * Note, we protect with RCU only the memcg_caches array, not per-memcg caches. + * That said the caller must assure the memcg's cache won't go away. Since once + * created a memcg's cache is destroyed only along with the root cache, it is + * true if we are going to allocate from the cache or hold a reference to the + * root cache by other means. Otherwise, we should hold either the slab_mutex + * or the memcg's slab_caches_mutex while calling this function and accessing + * the returned value. + */ static inline struct kmem_cache * cache_from_memcg_idx(struct kmem_cache *s, int idx) { struct kmem_cache *cachep; + struct memcg_cache_params *params; if (!s->memcg_params) return NULL; - cachep = s->memcg_params->memcg_caches[idx]; + + rcu_read_lock(); + params = rcu_dereference(s->memcg_params); + cachep = params->memcg_caches[idx]; + rcu_read_unlock(); /* * Make sure we will access the up-to-date value. The code updating |