Re: [External] Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/slub: Fix release all resources used by a slab cache

[Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 2:23 PM Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2020년 6월 14일 (일) 오후 9:39, Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>님이 작성:
> >
> > The function of __kmem_cache_shutdown() is that release all resources
> > used by the slab cache, while currently it stop release resources when
> > the preceding node is not empty.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/slub.c | 7 ++++---
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> > index b73505df3de2..4e477ef0f2b9 100644
> > --- a/mm/slub.c
> > +++ b/mm/slub.c
> > @@ -3839,6 +3839,7 @@ bool __kmem_cache_empty(struct kmem_cache *s)
> >   */
> >  int __kmem_cache_shutdown(struct kmem_cache *s)
> >  {
> > +       int ret = 0;
> >         int node;
> >         struct kmem_cache_node *n;
> >
> > @@ -3846,11 +3847,11 @@ int __kmem_cache_shutdown(struct kmem_cache *s)
> >         /* Attempt to free all objects */
> >         for_each_kmem_cache_node(s, node, n) {
> >                 free_partial(s, n);
> > -               if (node_nr_slabs(n))
> > -                       return 1;
> > +               if (!ret && node_nr_slabs(n))
> > +                       ret = 1;
> >         }
>
> I don't think that this is an improvement.
>
> If the shutdown condition isn't met, we don't need to process further.
> Just 'return 1' looks okay to me.
>
> And, with this change, sysfs_slab_remove() is called even if the
> shutdown is failed.
> It's better not to have side effects when failing.

If someone calls __kmem_cache_shutdown, he may want to release
resources used by the slab cache as much as possible. If we continue,
we may release more pages. From this point, is it an improvement?

-- 
Yours,
Muchun