# \[PATCH 12/16\] block: use SLAB\_TYPESAFE\_BY\_RCU for the bio slab

- From: Christoph Hellwig \<hch@lst.de\>
- Date: 2021-10-12 11:30:40 
- List: linux-block
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2021/10/215761
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2021/10/215748/t.md

```text
This flags ensures that the pages will not be reused for non-bio
allocations before the end of an RCU grace period.  With that we can
safely use a RCU lookup for bio polling as long as we are fine with
occasionally polling the wrong device.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Mark Wunderlich <redacted>
---
 block/bio.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index a6fb6a0b42955..a48cf9d04b3c1 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ static struct bio_slab *create_bio_slab(unsigned int size)
 
 	snprintf(bslab->name, sizeof(bslab->name), "bio-%d", size);
 	bslab->slab = kmem_cache_create(bslab->name, size,
-			ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
+			ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,
+			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, NULL);
 	if (!bslab->slab)
 		goto fail_alloc_slab;
 
-- 
2.30.2

```