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Commit e2852ae8 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Linus Torvalds
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percpu_counter: add debugobj support



All percpu counters are linked to a global list on initialization and
removed from it on destruction.  The list is walked during CPU up/down.
If a percpu counter is freed without being properly destroyed, the system
will oops only on the next CPU up/down making it pretty nasty to track
down.  This patch adds debugobj support for percpu counters so that such
problems can be found easily.

As percpu counters don't make sense on stack and can't be statically
initialized, debugobj support is pretty simple.  It's initialized and
activated on counter initialization, and deactivatd and destroyed on
counter destruction.  With this patch applied, the bug fixed by commit
602586a8 (shmem: put_super must
percpu_counter_destroy) triggers the following warning on tmpfs unmount
and the system won't oops on the next cpu up/down operation.

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:259 debug_print_object+0x5c/0x70()
 Hardware name: Bochs
 ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: percpu_counter
 Modules linked in:
 Pid: 3999, comm: umount Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-work+ #5
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81083f7f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
  [<ffffffff81084076>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
  [<ffffffff813b45cc>] debug_print_object+0x5c/0x70
  [<ffffffff813b50e5>] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x125/0x210
  [<ffffffff811577d3>] kfree+0xb3/0x2f0
  [<ffffffff81132edd>] shmem_put_super+0x1d/0x30
  [<ffffffff81162e96>] generic_shutdown_super+0x56/0xe0
  [<ffffffff81162f86>] kill_anon_super+0x16/0x60
  [<ffffffff81162ff7>] kill_litter_super+0x27/0x30
  [<ffffffff81163295>] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x60
  [<ffffffff81163cfa>] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
  [<ffffffff8117d446>] mntput_no_expire+0x86/0xe0
  [<ffffffff8117df7f>] sys_umount+0x6f/0x360
  [<ffffffff8103f01b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 ---[ end trace cce2a341ba3611a7 ]---

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglxlinutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 066a9be6
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