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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 07/10] mm: synchronize access to kmem_cache dying flag using a spinlock
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 4:18 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
>
> Currently the memcg_params.dying flag and the corresponding
> workqueue used for the asynchronous deactivation of kmem_caches
> is synchronized using the slab_mutex.
>
> It makes impossible to check this flag from the irq context,
> which will be required in order to implement asynchronous release
> of kmem_caches.
>
> So let's switch over to the irq-save flavor of the spinlock-based
> synchronization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>

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