From e7b691b085fda913830e5280ae6f724b2a63c824 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 02:40:03 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: penberg@kernel.org Cc: cl@linux.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [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 Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: David Mackey Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg --- mm/slab.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/slab.c') diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index fc4a77446700..dd607a8e6706 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -3310,7 +3310,7 @@ static void *alternate_node_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags) if (cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread() && (cachep->flags & SLAB_MEM_SPREAD)) nid_alloc = cpuset_slab_spread_node(); else if (current->mempolicy) - nid_alloc = slab_node(current->mempolicy); + nid_alloc = slab_node(); if (nid_alloc != nid_here) return ____cache_alloc_node(cachep, flags, nid_alloc); return NULL; @@ -3342,7 +3342,7 @@ static void *fallback_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags) retry_cpuset: cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed(); - zonelist = node_zonelist(slab_node(current->mempolicy), flags); + zonelist = node_zonelist(slab_node(), flags); retry: /* -- cgit v1.2.3