Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: make add_full() condition more explicit

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Aug 19 2020 - 15:37:17 EST


On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:02:36 +0800 <wuyun.wu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Abel Wu <wuyun.wu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The commit below is incomplete, as it didn't handle the add_full() part.
> commit a4d3f8916c65 ("slub: remove useless kmem_cache_debug() before remove_full()")
>
> This patch checks for SLAB_STORE_USER instead of kmem_cache_debug(),
> since that should be the only context in which we need the list_lock for
> add_full().
>

Does this contradict what the comment tells us?

* This also ensures that the scanning of full
* slabs from diagnostic functions will not see
* any frozen slabs.