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SubjectRe: Random panics seen in 2.6.18-rc1

* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:12:21 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> yup.
>
> > ---
> > mm/slab.c | 9 ---------
> > 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > Index: linux/mm/slab.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux.orig/mm/slab.c
> > +++ linux/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);
>
> But what was that change _for_? Presumably, to plug some lockdep
> problem. Which now will come back.

correct - but i first wanted to get the fix out, before trying to fix
the lockdep thing.

> And the additional arg to __cache_free() was rather a step backwards -
> this is fastpath. With a bit more effort that could have been avoided
> (please).

yeah, i'll fix this. Any suggestions of how to avoid the parameter
passing? (without ugly #ifdeffery)

Ingo
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