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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: kmemcheck caught read from freed memory (cfq_free_io_context)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:28:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080402122814.GF12774@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207138422.8514.799.camel@twins>

On Wed, Apr 02 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 13:53 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU should have a _HUGE_ comment explaining it,
> > > I'm sure this is not the first (nor the last) time people get that
> > > wrong.
> > 
> > It should, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is definitely useful, but it is expected
> > to be an 'easier' way of doing the call_rcu() manually. So it definitely
> > needs more documentation.
> > 
> 
> Ok I gave it a go, how bad is this text?

I think it looks good. The key point is this:

"This delays freeing the SLAB page by a grace period, it does _NOT_ delay
object freeing."

which is right in the front of the text and with sample validation
below. So you can add my acked-by to that, if you want.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-02 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-01 21:08 kmemcheck caught read from freed memory (cfq_free_io_context) Vegard Nossum
2008-04-01 21:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-01 22:51   ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02  6:15     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02  7:19       ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 10:24       ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02  7:17   ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02  7:20     ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-02  7:24       ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02  7:28         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-02  7:31           ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 10:55           ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 10:59             ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 11:33               ` Fabio Checconi
2008-04-02 11:43                 ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 12:36                   ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 12:36                     ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 12:55                       ` Fabio Checconi
2008-04-02 12:58                         ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 12:58                           ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 13:16                             ` Fabio Checconi
2008-04-02 16:14                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 13:37                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 13:41                             ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 15:33                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 16:31                                 ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 17:00                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 13:32                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 13:40                   ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 16:15                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 11:01             ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-02 11:07               ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 11:08                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 11:11                   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-02 11:14                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 11:18                       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-02 17:36                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 11:14                   ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 11:20                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 11:25                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 11:32                       ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 11:37                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 11:42                           ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 11:47                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 11:53                               ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 12:13                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 12:28                                   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-04-02 13:26                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 13:43                                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-02 12:26                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 12:34                                   ` Jens Axboe
2008-04-02 16:08               ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 16:15                 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-04-02 16:32                   ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-02 18:23                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 19:53                       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-02 20:15                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-03 15:18                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-03 19:49                             ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-03 21:27                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 16:59                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 17:31                     ` Vegard Nossum
2008-04-02 10:40     ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-04-02 10:46       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-02 10:49         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 10:54           ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-02 17:35           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 10:53       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-02 11:13         ` Jens Axboe

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