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| author | Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> | 2011-08-09 13:01:32 -0500 |
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| committer | Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> | 2011-08-09 21:12:31 +0300 |
| commit | 81107188f123e3c2217ac2f2feb2a1147904c62f (patch) | |
| tree | 53626e529423c12d082cbcc23012de0b39f26e4d | |
| parent | ef62fb32b7b21731e41aea3c1e08bcdb407c9eb9 (diff) | |
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slub: Fix partial count comparison confusion
deactivate_slab() has the comparison if more than the minimum number of
partial pages are in the partial list wrong. An effect of this may be that
empty pages are not freed from deactivate_slab(). The result could be an
OOM due to growth of the partial slabs per node. Frees mostly occur from
__slab_free which is okay so this would only affect use cases where a lot
of switching around of per cpu slabs occur.
Switching per cpu slabs occurs with high frequency if debugging options are
enabled.
Reported-and-tested-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slub.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 6da68597bde..9f662d70eb4 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -1854,7 +1854,7 @@ redo: new.frozen = 0; - if (!new.inuse && n->nr_partial < s->min_partial) + if (!new.inuse && n->nr_partial > s->min_partial) m = M_FREE; else if (new.freelist) { m = M_PARTIAL; |