Re: [patch] v2 mm/slub: restore/expand unfreeze_partials() local exclusion scope

[Mike Galbraith]

(a pox on whomever broke evolution text quoting yet again)

On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 23:19 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>
> Hm you mention put_cpu_partial() but your patch handles only the
> unfreeze_partial() call from that function?

Indeed, and that's because when I poked that slub_get_cpu_ptr(), it
poked me back by real deal deadlocking on boot, so I posted the
restoration of previously existing exclusion points with the
unlock/relock to appease lockdep (big hairy wart) bit instead.

>  If I understand the problem
> correctly, all modifications of cpu_slab->partial has to be protected
> on RT after the local_lock conversion, thus also the one that
> put_cpu_partial() does by itself (via this_cpu_cmpxchg).

Yup, that's what I concluded too, but box disagreed by not booting when
I did that, while seemingly being perfectly fine with the one in
put_cpu_partial() itself.  I figured my slub_get_cpu_ptr() replacement
had failed due to list_lock/local_lock order woes that I didn't notice
until after box bricked on me, but despite the unlock/relock in this
patch, it still manages to be a -ENOBOOT.

	-Mike