tree fc58744ab0371adb5942462ceab3fa70d0ef9375
parent 2e1217cf96b54d3b2d0162930608159e73507fbf
author Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> 1139124478 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1139166413 -0800

[PATCH] NUMA slab locking fixes: irq disabling from cahep->spinlock to l3 lock

Earlier, we had to disable on chip interrupts while taking the
cachep->spinlock because, at cache_grow, on every addition of a slab to a slab
cache, we incremented colour_next which was protected by the cachep->spinlock,
and cache_grow could occur at interrupt context.  Since, now we protect the
per-node colour_next with the node's list_lock, we do not need to disable on
chip interrupts while taking the per-cache spinlock, but we just need to
disable interrupts when taking the per-node kmem_list3 list_lock.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>