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SubjectRe: [patch -mm] slab: use CPU_LOCK_[ACQUIRE|RELEASE]
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Heiko Carstens wrote:

> - case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
> + case CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE:
> mutex_lock(&cache_chain_mutex);
> + break;

I have got a bad feeling about upcoming deadlock problems when looking at
the mutex_lock / unlock code in cpuup_callback in slab.c. Branches
that just obtain a lock or release a lock? I hope there is some
control of what happens between lock acquisition and release?

You are aware that this lock is taken for cache shrinking/destroy, tuning
of cpu cache sizes, proc output and cache creation? Any of those run on
the same processor should cause a deadlock.
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