Re: [PATCH] slab: fix the DEADLOCK issue on l3 alien lock

[Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 09/05/2012 09:55 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Michael Wang wrote:
> 
>> Since the cachep and cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien are in the same lock class,
>> fake report generated.
> 
> Ahh... That is a key insight into why this occurs.
> 
>> This should not happen since we already have init_lock_keys() which will
>> reassign the lock class for both l3 list and l3 alien.
> 
> Right. I was wondering why we still get intermitted reports on this.
> 
>> This patch will invoke init_lock_keys() after we done enable_cpucache()
>> instead of before to avoid the fake DEADLOCK report.
> 
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

Thanks for your review.

And add Paul to the cc list(my skills on mailing is really poor...).

Regards,
Michael Wang

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