On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
quoted text
> > Alexey, can you try passing the 'slub_nomerge' option to the kernel to
> > see if the hang goes away with that?
> 
> nomerge doesn't help as well as turning on combinations of SLUB debug options.

Does the following patch fix it?

			Pekka

From 7c7e7e5e7ec07c0a47705b2d21c779c39ba02252 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:17:43 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] slub: add missing slab_unlock() to __kmem_cache_shrink()

If page is not kickable, remember to slab_unlock() before continuing the loop.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
---
 mm/slub.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 4b694a7..f09f1fb 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2926,8 +2926,10 @@ static unsigned long __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s, int node,
 			continue;
 
 		if (page->inuse) {
-			if (!SlabKickable(page))
+			if (!SlabKickable(page)) {
+				slab_unlock(page);
 				continue;
+			}
 
 			if (page->inuse * 100 >=
 					s->defrag_ratio * page->objects) {
-- 
1.5.2.5



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