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authorYunfeng Ye <[email protected]>2021-11-19 16:43:25 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2021-11-20 10:35:54 -0800
commit9a543f007b702b0be4acacad416a0f90233b4558 (patch)
tree76c6ff8199ed534cecba9d06bcb857e0298df1d4 /net/lapb/lapb_timer.c
parent85b6d24646e4125c591639841169baa98a2da503 (diff)
mm: emit the "free" trace report before freeing memory in kmem_cache_free()
After the memory is freed, it can be immediately allocated by other CPUs, before the "free" trace report has been emitted. This causes inaccurate traces. For example, if the following sequence of events occurs: CPU 0 CPU 1 (1) alloc xxxxxx (2) free xxxxxx (3) alloc xxxxxx (4) free xxxxxx Then they will be inaccurately reported via tracing, so that they appear to have happened in this order: CPU 0 CPU 1 (1) alloc xxxxxx (2) alloc xxxxxx (3) free xxxxxx (4) free xxxxxx This makes it look like CPU 1 somehow managed to allocate memory that CPU 0 still had allocated for itself. In order to avoid this, emit the "free xxxxxx" tracing report just before the actual call to free the memory, instead of just after it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Yunfeng Ye <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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