From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755427Ab0D1Ppu (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:45:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56554 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753349Ab0D1Ppt (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:45:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:45:08 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Mel Gorman Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Christoph Lameter , Linux-MM , LKML , Minchan Kim , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix migration races in rmap_walk() V2 Message-ID: <20100428154508.GT510@random.random> References: <1272403852-10479-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20100427223242.GG8860@random.random> <20100428091345.496ca4c4.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100428002056.GH510@random.random> <20100428142356.GF15815@csn.ul.ie> <20100428145737.GG15815@csn.ul.ie> <20100428151614.GQ510@random.random> <20100428152354.GH15815@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100428152354.GH15815@csn.ul.ie> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 04:23:54PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Is it possible to delay the linkage like that? As arguments get copied into > the temporary stack before it gets moved, I'd have expected the normal fault > path to prepare and attach the anon_vma. We could special case it but > that isn't very palatable either. I'm not sure what is more palatable, but I feel it should be fixed in execve. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 758196B01F5 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:45:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:45:08 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix migration races in rmap_walk() V2 Message-ID: <20100428154508.GT510@random.random> References: <1272403852-10479-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20100427223242.GG8860@random.random> <20100428091345.496ca4c4.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100428002056.GH510@random.random> <20100428142356.GF15815@csn.ul.ie> <20100428145737.GG15815@csn.ul.ie> <20100428151614.GQ510@random.random> <20100428152354.GH15815@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100428152354.GH15815@csn.ul.ie> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Christoph Lameter , Linux-MM , LKML , Minchan Kim , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton List-ID: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 04:23:54PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Is it possible to delay the linkage like that? As arguments get copied into > the temporary stack before it gets moved, I'd have expected the normal fault > path to prepare and attach the anon_vma. We could special case it but > that isn't very palatable either. I'm not sure what is more palatable, but I feel it should be fixed in execve. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org