Re: [PATCH -rt 5/5] slub: -rt port

Oleg Nesterov
2007-07-14T17:38:25Z

On 07/14, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> +static void flush_all(struct kmem_cache *s)
> +{
> + int cpu;
> + struct workqueue_struct *wq = flush_slab_workqueue;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&flush_slab_mutex);
> + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> + struct slab_work_struct *sw = &per_cpu(slab_works, cpu);
> +
> + INIT_WORK(&sw->work, flush_cpu_slab_wq);
> + sw->s = s;
> + queue_work_cpu(wq, &sw->work, cpu);
> + }
> + flush_workqueue(wq);
> + mutex_unlock(&flush_slab_mutex);
> +}

I suspect this is not cpu-hotplug safe. flush_slab_mutex doesn't protect
from cpu_down(). This means that slab_work_struct could be scheduled on
the already dead CPU. flush_workqueue(wq) will hang in that case.

Oleg.