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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2012-06-09 02:40:03 -0700
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2012-06-20 10:01:04 +0300
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slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interrupt context
slab_node() could access current->mempolicy from interrupt context. However there's a race condition during exit where the mempolicy is first freed and then the pointer zeroed. Using this from interrupts seems bogus anyways. The interrupt will interrupt a random process and therefore get a random mempolicy. Many times, this will be idle's, which noone can change. Just disable this here and always use local for slab from interrupts. I also cleaned up the callers of slab_node a bit which always passed the same argument. I believe the original mempolicy code did that in fact, so it's likely a regression. v2: send version with correct logic v3: simplify. fix typo. Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: penberg@kernel.org Cc: cl@linux.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> [tdmackey@twitter.com: Rework control flow based on feedback from cl@linux.com, fix logic, and cleanup current task_struct reference] Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David Mackey <tdmackey@twitter.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 797271f5afb8..348fed1643f4 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ static void *get_any_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags,
do {
cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed();
- zonelist = node_zonelist(slab_node(current->mempolicy), flags);
+ zonelist = node_zonelist(slab_node(), flags);
for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, zonelist, high_zoneidx) {
struct kmem_cache_node *n;