On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:25:21AM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
quoted text
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > 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;
> +			}

Yes, it helps. Now I have some more bugs to report. :-(

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