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-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c24
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index bb8d7d3cf302..6fbf50977f77 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -258,8 +258,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
*/
struct rcu_head rcu_freeing;
/*
- * But when using vfree(), that cannot be done at
- * interrupt time, so we must then queue the work.
+ * We also need some space for a worker in deferred freeing.
+ * By the time we call it, rcu_freeing is no longer in use.
*/
struct work_struct work_freeing;
};
@@ -4702,23 +4702,28 @@ out_free:
}
/*
- * Helpers for freeing a vzalloc()ed mem_cgroup by RCU,
+ * Helpers for freeing a kmalloc()ed/vzalloc()ed mem_cgroup by RCU,
* but in process context. The work_freeing structure is overlaid
* on the rcu_freeing structure, which itself is overlaid on memsw.
*/
-static void vfree_work(struct work_struct *work)
+static void free_work(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+ int size = sizeof(struct mem_cgroup);
memcg = container_of(work, struct mem_cgroup, work_freeing);
- vfree(memcg);
+ if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
+ kfree(memcg);
+ else
+ vfree(memcg);
}
-static void vfree_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head)
+
+static void free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
memcg = container_of(rcu_head, struct mem_cgroup, rcu_freeing);
- INIT_WORK(&memcg->work_freeing, vfree_work);
+ INIT_WORK(&memcg->work_freeing, free_work);
schedule_work(&memcg->work_freeing);
}
@@ -4744,10 +4749,7 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
free_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info(memcg, node);
free_percpu(memcg->stat);
- if (sizeof(struct mem_cgroup) < PAGE_SIZE)
- kfree_rcu(memcg, rcu_freeing);
- else
- call_rcu(&memcg->rcu_freeing, vfree_rcu);
+ call_rcu(&memcg->rcu_freeing, free_rcu);
}
static void mem_cgroup_get(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)