Re: SLUB: kmem_cache_destroy doesn't

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Neil Brown wrote:

> And 
> 
>   # cat /sys/slab/raid5-md1/aliases
>   -1
> 
> is a bit suspicious.

Yuck!

> void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
> {
> 	down_write(&slub_lock);
> 	if (s->refcount)
> 		s->refcount--;
> 	else {
> 		list_del(&s->list);
> 		WARN_ON(kmem_cache_close(s));
> 		sysfs_slab_remove(s);
> 		kfree(s);
> 	}
> 	up_write(&slub_lock);
> }
> 
> looks a bit odd.
> I would have thought the test should be:
> 
>         if (s->refcount > 1)

Correct. Does the change fix it?
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