[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "slub: Fix calculation of cpu slabs" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Feb 5 13:12:36 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    slub: Fix calculation of cpu slabs

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 29cf729dcd6fff7a4fe33868494702cb4a8b9792 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Li Zefan <lizefan at huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:43:37 +0800
Subject: slub: Fix calculation of cpu slabs

commit 8afb1474db4701d1ab80cd8251137a3260e6913e upstream.

  /sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000048 # cat cpu_slabs
  231 N0=16 N1=215
  /sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000048 # cat slabs
  145 N0=36 N1=109

See, the number of slabs is smaller than that of cpu slabs.

The bug was introduced by commit 49e2258586b423684f03c278149ab46d8f8b6700
("slub: per cpu cache for partial pages").

We should use page->pages instead of page->pobjects when calculating
the number of cpu partial slabs. This also fixes the mapping of slabs
and nodes.

As there's no variable storing the number of total/active objects in
cpu partial slabs, and we don't have user interfaces requiring those
statistics, I just add WARN_ON for those cases.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 mm/slub.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 71ad7c9..fef48ae 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -4300,7 +4300,13 @@ static ssize_t show_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,

 			page = ACCESS_ONCE(c->partial);
 			if (page) {
-				x = page->pobjects;
+				node = page_to_nid(page);
+				if (flags & SO_TOTAL)
+					WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+				else if (flags & SO_OBJECTS)
+					WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+				else
+					x = page->pages;
 				total += x;
 				nodes[node] += x;
 			}
--
1.8.3.2





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