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authorChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>2012-07-06 15:25:13 -0500
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2012-07-09 12:13:42 +0300
commit20cea9683ecc6dd75a80c0dd02dc69c64e95be75 (patch)
treec52994730d2d280f9300197cc4f561b15e3dd4b2 /mm/slab_common.c
parent18004c5d4084d965aa1396392706b8688306427a (diff)
downloadlinux-20cea9683ecc6dd75a80c0dd02dc69c64e95be75.tar.gz
mm, sl[aou]b: Move kmem_cache_create mutex handling to common code
Move the mutex handling into the common kmem_cache_create()
function.

Then we can also move more checks out of SLAB's kmem_cache_create()
into the common code.

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab_common.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c41
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 50e1ff10bff9..12637cee1f95 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
 #include <linux/memory.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
-
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
@@ -61,8 +62,46 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align
 	}
 #endif
 
+	get_online_cpus();
+	mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+	list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) {
+		char tmp;
+		int res;
+
+		/*
+		 * This happens when the module gets unloaded and doesn't
+		 * destroy its slab cache and no-one else reuses the vmalloc
+		 * area of the module.  Print a warning.
+		 */
+		res = probe_kernel_address(s->name, tmp);
+		if (res) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR
+			       "Slab cache with size %d has lost its name\n",
+			       s->object_size);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (!strcmp(s->name, name)) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR "kmem_cache_create(%s): Cache name"
+				" already exists.\n",
+				name);
+			dump_stack();
+			s = NULL;
+			goto oops;
+		}
+	}
+
+	WARN_ON(strchr(name, ' '));	/* It confuses parsers */
+#endif
+
 	s = __kmem_cache_create(name, size, align, flags, ctor);
 
+oops:
+	mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
+	put_online_cpus();
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
 out:
 #endif