Re: [SLAB] Shutdown cache_reaper when cpu goes down

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On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:13:29 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Shutdown the cache_reaper if the cpu is brought down and set the 
> cache_reap.func to NULL. Otherwise hotplug shuts down the reaper for good.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm2/mm/slab.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm2.orig/mm/slab.c	2007-01-29 14:27:34.199229828 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm2/mm/slab.c	2007-01-30 13:55:57.936838878 -0600
> @@ -1271,6 +1271,18 @@ static int __cpuinit cpuup_callback(stru
>  		start_cpu_timer(cpu);
>  		break;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
> +  	case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE:
> +		/*
> +		 * Shutdown cache reaper. Note that the cache_chain_mutex is
> +		 * held so that cache_reap() cannot modify reap_work
> +		 * concurrently.
> +		*/
> +		cancel_rearming_delayed_work(&per_cpu(reap_work, cpu));
> +		per_cpu(reap_work, cpu).work.func = NULL;
> +  		break;
> +  	case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
> +		start_cpu_timer(cpu);
> +  		break;
>  	case CPU_DEAD:
>  		/*
>  		 * Even if all the cpus of a node are down, we don't free the

Is this bug unique to the changes in -mm, or is it in mainline?
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