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Date:   Wed, 4 Dec 2019 16:53:47 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: SLUB: purpose of sysfs events on cache creation/removal
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Michal Hocko wrote:

> As I've said I believe it is quite risky. But if you as a maintainer
> believe this is the right thing to do I will not object. Care to send a
> patch?

From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: slub: Remove userspace notifier for cache add/remove

Kmem caches are internal kernel structures so it is strange that
userspace notifiers would be needed. And I am not aware of any use
of these notifiers. These notifiers may just exist because in the
initial slub release the sysfs code was copied from another
subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

Index: linux/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/slub.c	2019-12-02 15:13:23.948312925 +0000
+++ linux/mm/slub.c	2019-12-04 16:32:34.648550310 +0000
@@ -5632,19 +5632,6 @@ static struct kobj_type slab_ktype = {
 	.release = kmem_cache_release,
 };

-static int uevent_filter(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj)
-{
-	struct kobj_type *ktype = get_ktype(kobj);
-
-	if (ktype == &slab_ktype)
-		return 1;
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static const struct kset_uevent_ops slab_uevent_ops = {
-	.filter = uevent_filter,
-};
-
 static struct kset *slab_kset;

 static inline struct kset *cache_kset(struct kmem_cache *s)
@@ -5712,7 +5699,6 @@ static void sysfs_slab_remove_workfn(str
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
 	kset_unregister(s->memcg_kset);
 #endif
-	kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
 out:
 	kobject_put(&s->kobj);
 }
@@ -5770,7 +5756,6 @@ static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_ca
 	}
 #endif

-	kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 	if (!unmergeable) {
 		/* Setup first alias */
 		sysfs_slab_alias(s, s->name);
@@ -5851,7 +5836,7 @@ static int __init slab_sysfs_init(void)

 	mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);

-	slab_kset = kset_create_and_add("slab", &slab_uevent_ops, kernel_kobj);
+	slab_kset = kset_create_and_add("slab", NULL, kernel_kobj);
 	if (!slab_kset) {
 		mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
 		pr_err("Cannot register slab subsystem.\n");