From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:27:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180412142718.GA20398@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1804120907100.11220@nuc-kabylake>
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 09:10:23AM -0500, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > I don't see how that works ... can you explain a little more?
>
> c->freelist is NULL and thus ___slab_alloc (slowpath) is called.
> ___slab_alloc populates c->freelist and gets the new object pointer.
>
> if debugging is on then c->freelist is set to NULL at the end of
> ___slab_alloc because deactivate_slab() is called.
>
> Thus the next invocation of the fastpath will find that c->freelist is
> NULL and go to the slowpath. ...
_ah_. I hadn't figured out that c->page was always NULL in the debugging
case too, so ___slab_alloc() always hits the 'new_slab' case. Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-12 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-11 6:03 [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix __GFP_ZERO vs constructor Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-11 6:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Fix NULL pointer in page_cache_tree_insert Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-11 6:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-11 6:35 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-11 13:44 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-11 19:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-11 21:11 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-11 23:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-12 14:10 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-12 14:27 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-04-12 15:15 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-12 19:13 ` [PATCH v3 " Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-16 15:10 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-08-03 21:22 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-03 22:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-04 9:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-08-04 14:00 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-04-12 0:54 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix __GFP_ZERO vs constructor Minchan Kim
2018-04-12 19:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-13 12:44 ` Michal Hocko
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