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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: mel@csn.ul.ie, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dino@in.ibm.com,
	jschopp@austin.ibm.com, Simon.Derr@bull.net, torvalds@osdl.org,
	haveblue@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] cpusets mems_allowed constrain GFP_KERNEL, oom killer
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 01:08:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906010822.5cb635c0.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050901090853.18441.24035.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com>

Andrew,

Please throw away the following 4 patches in 2.6.13-mm1:

  cpusets-oom_kill-tweaks.patch
  cpusets-new-__gfp_hardwall-flag.patch
  cpusets-formalize-intermediate-gfp_kernel-containment.patch
  cpusets-confine-oom_killer-to-mem_exclusive-cpuset.patch

You will see almost the same patches come back at you, in another
week, after I first send some patches to rework handling the global
cpuset semaphore cpuset_sem.

My code reading leads me to think there is a rare lockup possibility
here, where a task already holding cpuset_sem could try to get it
again in the new cpuset_zone_allowed() code.

Only systems actively manipulating cpusets have any chance of seeing
this.

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-06  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01  9:08 [PATCH 0/4] cpusets mems_allowed constrain GFP_KERNEL, oom killer Paul Jackson
2005-09-01  9:08 ` [PATCH 1/4] cpusets oom_kill tweaks Paul Jackson
2005-09-01  9:39   ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-09-01  9:58     ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-01 10:49       ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-09-01  9:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] cpusets new __GFP_HARDWALL flag Paul Jackson
2005-09-01  9:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] cpusets formalize intermediate GFP_KERNEL containment Paul Jackson
2005-09-01  9:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] cpusets confine oom_killer to mem_exclusive cpuset Paul Jackson
2005-09-06  8:08 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-09-06 22:29   ` [PATCH 0/4] cpusets mems_allowed constrain GFP_KERNEL, oom killer Paul Jackson

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