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SLUB: Move sysfs operations outside of slub_lock
authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:03:31 +0000 (04:03 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:23:02 +0000 (10:23 -0700)
commita0e1d1be204612ee83b3afe8aa24c5d27e63d464
treea32092a7eda82c84c5e195de5efd2cb6c0bff553tree | snapshot
parent434e245ddd3f14aa8eef97cae16c71b863ab092acommit | diff
SLUB: Move sysfs operations outside of slub_lock

Sysfs can do a gazillion things when called.  Make sure that we do not call
any sysfs functions while holding the slub_lock.

Just protect the essentials:

1. The list of all slab caches
2. The kmalloc_dma array
3. The ref counters of the slabs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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