Re: [SLAB] Shutdown cache_reaper when cpu goes down

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 19:56:25 EST


On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:13:29 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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

Is this bug unique to the changes in -mm, or is it in mainline?
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