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The function is now safe to be called with irqs enabled, so move the calls outside of irq disabled sections. When called from ___slab_alloc() -> flush_slab() we have irqs disabled, so to reenable them before deactivate_slab() we need to open-code flush_slab() in ___slab_alloc() and reenable irqs after modifying the kmem_cache_cpu fields. But that means a IRQ handler meanwhile might have assigned a new page to kmem_cache_cpu.page so we have to retry the whole check. The remaining callers of flush_slab() are the IPI handler which has disabled irqs anyway, and slub_cpu_dead() which will be dealt with in the following patch. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.