Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] slab: document SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:28:29 +0100 |
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Subject: slab: document SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:13:42 +0200
Explain this SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU thing...
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- include/linux/slab.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/slab.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h @@ -23,6 +23,32 @@ #define SLAB_CACHE_DMA 0x00004000UL /* Use GFP_DMA memory */ #define SLAB_STORE_USER 0x00010000UL /* DEBUG: Store the last owner for bug hunting */ #define SLAB_PANIC 0x00040000UL /* Panic if kmem_cache_create() fails */ +/* + * SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU - **WARNING** READ THIS! + * + * This delays freeing the SLAB page by a grace period, it does _NOT_ + * delay object freeing. This means that if you do kmem_cache_free() + * that memory location is free to be reused at any time. Thus it may + * be possible to see another object there in the same RCU grace period. + * + * This feature only ensures the memory location backing the object + * stays valid, the trick to using this is relying on an independent + * object validation pass. Something like: + * + * rcu_read_lock() + * again: + * obj = lockless_lookup(key); + * if (obj) { + * if (!try_get_ref(obj)) // might fail for free objects + * goto again; + * + * if (obj->key != key) { // not the object we expected + * put_ref(obj); + * goto again; + * } + * } + * rcu_read_unlock(); + */ #define SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU 0x00080000UL /* Defer freeing slabs to RCU */ #define SLAB_MEM_SPREAD 0x00100000UL /* Spread some memory over cpuset */ #define SLAB_TRACE 0x00200000UL /* Trace allocations and frees */
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