Re: SLUB: purpose of sysfs events on cache creation/removal

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 12/4/19 5:53 PM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
>> As I've said I believe it is quite risky. But if you as a maintainer
>> believe this is the right thing to do I will not object. Care to send a
>> patch?
> 
> From: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: slub: Remove userspace notifier for cache add/remove
> 
> Kmem caches are internal kernel structures so it is strange that
> userspace notifiers would be needed. And I am not aware of any use
> of these notifiers. These notifiers may just exist because in the
> initial slub release the sysfs code was copied from another
> subsystem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

If anyone cares, we'll find out eventually.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> 
> Index: linux/mm/slub.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/mm/slub.c	2019-12-02 15:13:23.948312925 +0000
> +++ linux/mm/slub.c	2019-12-04 16:32:34.648550310 +0000
> @@ -5632,19 +5632,6 @@ static struct kobj_type slab_ktype = {
>  	.release = kmem_cache_release,
>  };
> 
> -static int uevent_filter(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj)
> -{
> -	struct kobj_type *ktype = get_ktype(kobj);
> -
> -	if (ktype == &slab_ktype)
> -		return 1;
> -	return 0;
> -}
> -
> -static const struct kset_uevent_ops slab_uevent_ops = {
> -	.filter = uevent_filter,
> -};
> -
>  static struct kset *slab_kset;
> 
>  static inline struct kset *cache_kset(struct kmem_cache *s)
> @@ -5712,7 +5699,6 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove_workfn(str
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
>  	kset_unregister(s->memcg_kset);
>  #endif
> -	kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
>  out:
>  	kobject_put(&s->kobj);
>  }
> @@ -5770,7 +5756,6 @@ static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_ca
>  	}
>  #endif
> 
> -	kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
>  	if (!unmergeable) {
>  		/* Setup first alias */
>  		sysfs_slab_alias(s, s->name);
> @@ -5851,7 +5836,7 @@ static int __init slab_sysfs_init(void)
> 
>  	mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
> 
> -	slab_kset = kset_create_and_add("slab", &slab_uevent_ops, kernel_kobj);
> +	slab_kset = kset_create_and_add("slab", NULL, kernel_kobj);
>  	if (!slab_kset) {
>  		mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
>  		pr_err("Cannot register slab subsystem.\n");
>