[SLAB] Shutdown cache_reaper when cpu goes down

[Christoph Lameter]

Shutdown the cache_reaper if the cpu is brought down and set the 
cache_reap.func to NULL. Otherwise hotplug shuts down the reaper for good.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm2/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm2.orig/mm/slab.c	2007-01-29 14:27:34.199229828 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm2/mm/slab.c	2007-01-30 13:55:57.936838878 -0600
@@ -1271,6 +1271,18 @@ static int __cpuinit cpuup_callback(stru
 		start_cpu_timer(cpu);
 		break;
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+  	case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
+		/*
+		 * Shutdown cache reaper. Note that the cache_chain_mutex is
+		 * held so that cache_reap() cannot modify reap_work
+		 * concurrently.
+		*/
+		cancel_rearming_delayed_work(&per_cpu(reap_work, cpu));
+		per_cpu(reap_work, cpu).work.func = NULL;
+  		break;
+  	case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
+		start_cpu_timer(cpu);
+  		break;
 	case CPU_DEAD:
 		/*
 		 * Even if all the cpus of a node are down, we don't free the
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