mm, sl[aou]b: Use a common mutex definition
Use the mutex definition from SLAB and make it the common way to take a sleeping lock.
This has the effect of using a mutex instead of a rw semaphore for SLUB.
SLOB gains the use of a mutex for kmem_cache_create serialization.
Not needed now but SLOB may acquire some more features later (like slabinfo
/ sysfs support) through the expansion of the common code that will
need this.
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index f9a9815..db7848c 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
extern enum slab_state slab_state;
+/* The slab cache mutex protects the management structures during changes */
+extern struct mutex slab_mutex;
+extern struct list_head slab_caches;
+
struct kmem_cache *__kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *));