Revert "SLUB: Alternate fast paths using cmpxchg_local"
This reverts commit 1f84260c, which is suspected to be the reason for some very occasional and hard-to-trigger crashes that usually look related to memory allocation (mostly reported in networking, but since that's generally the most common source of shortlived allocations - and allocations in interrupt contexts - that in itself is not a big clue). See for example http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9973 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/278 etc. One promising suspicion for what the root cause of bug is (which also explains why it's so hard to trigger in practice) came from Eric Dumazet: "I wonder how SLUB_FASTPATH is supposed to work, since it is affected by a classical ABA problem of lockless algo. cmpxchg_local(&c->freelist, object, object[c->offset]) can succeed, while an interrupt came (on this cpu), and several allocations were done, and one free was performed at the end of this inter...
parent
aa3f9803
Please register or sign in to comment