From 0bd62b1190607e4f1b3c2927ba48672a1cf2a83d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Davydov Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:10:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] slab: delete cache from list after __kmem_cache_shutdown succeeds Currently, on kmem_cache_destroy we delete the cache from the slab_list before __kmem_cache_shutdown, inserting it back to the list on failure. Initially, this was done, because we could release the slab_mutex in __kmem_cache_shutdown to delete sysfs slub entry, but since commit 41a212859a4d ("slub: use sysfs'es release mechanism for kmem_cache") we remove sysfs entry later in kmem_cache_destroy after dropping the slab_mutex, so that no implementation of __kmem_cache_shutdown can ever release the lock. Therefore we can simplify the code a bit by moving list_del after __kmem_cache_shutdown. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed