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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -alternative] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables V2 (resend)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:42:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50118182.8030308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1207222033030.6810@eggly.anvils>

On 07/23/2012 12:04 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Please don't be upset if I say that I don't like either of your patches.
> Mainly for obvious reasons - I don't like Mel's because anything with
> trylock retries and nested spinlocks worries me before I can even start
> to think about it; and I don't like Michal's for the same reason as Mel,
> that it spreads more change around in common paths than we would like.

I have a naive question.

In huge_pmd_share, we protect ourselves by taking
the mapping->i_mmap_mutex.

Is there any reason we could not take the i_mmap_mutex
in the huge_pmd_unshare path?

I see that hugetlb_change_protection already takes that
lock. Is there something preventing __unmap_hugepage_range
from also taking mapping->i_mmap_mutex?

That way the sharing and the unsharing code are
protected by the same, per shm segment, lock.

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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -alternative] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables V2 (resend)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:42:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50118182.8030308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1207222033030.6810@eggly.anvils>

On 07/23/2012 12:04 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Please don't be upset if I say that I don't like either of your patches.
> Mainly for obvious reasons - I don't like Mel's because anything with
> trylock retries and nested spinlocks worries me before I can even start
> to think about it; and I don't like Michal's for the same reason as Mel,
> that it spreads more change around in common paths than we would like.

I have a naive question.

In huge_pmd_share, we protect ourselves by taking
the mapping->i_mmap_mutex.

Is there any reason we could not take the i_mmap_mutex
in the huge_pmd_unshare path?

I see that hugetlb_change_protection already takes that
lock. Is there something preventing __unmap_hugepage_range
from also taking mapping->i_mmap_mutex?

That way the sharing and the unsharing code are
protected by the same, per shm segment, lock.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20 13:49 [PATCH] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables v2 Mel Gorman
2012-07-20 13:49 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-20 14:11 ` [PATCH] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables V2 (resend) Mel Gorman
2012-07-20 14:11   ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-20 14:29   ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-20 14:29     ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-20 14:37     ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-20 14:37       ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-20 14:40       ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-20 14:40         ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-20 14:36   ` [PATCH -alternative] " Michal Hocko
2012-07-20 14:36     ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-20 14:51     ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-20 14:51       ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23  4:04       ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-23  4:04         ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-23 11:40         ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 11:40           ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-24  1:08           ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-24  1:08             ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-24  8:32             ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-24  8:32               ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-24  9:34             ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-24  9:34               ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-24 10:04               ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-24 10:04                 ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-24 19:23               ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-24 19:23                 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-25  8:36                 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-25  8:36                   ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-26 17:42         ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-07-26 17:42           ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-26 18:04           ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-26 18:04             ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-27  8:42           ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-27  8:42             ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-26 18:37         ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-26 18:37           ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-26 21:03           ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-26 21:03             ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-27  3:48           ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-27  3:48             ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-27 10:10             ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-27 10:10               ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-27 10:23             ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-27 10:23               ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-27 10:36               ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-27 10:36                 ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-30 19:11               ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-30 19:11                 ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-31 12:16                 ` Hillf Danton
2012-07-31 12:16                   ` Hillf Danton
2012-07-31 12:46                 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-31 12:46                   ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-31 13:07                   ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-31 13:07                     ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-31 13:29                     ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-31 13:29                       ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-31 13:21                   ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-31 13:21                     ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-31 17:49                   ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-31 17:49                     ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-31 20:06                     ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-31 20:06                       ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-31 20:57                       ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-31 20:57                         ` Larry Woodman
2012-08-01  2:45                       ` Larry Woodman
2012-08-01  2:45                         ` Larry Woodman
2012-08-01  8:20                         ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-01  8:20                           ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-01 12:32                           ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-01 12:32                             ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-01 15:06                             ` Larry Woodman
2012-08-01 15:06                               ` Larry Woodman
2012-08-02  7:19                               ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-02  7:19                                 ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-02  7:37                                 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-02  7:37                                   ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-02 12:36                                   ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-02 12:36                                     ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-02 13:33                                     ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-02 13:33                                       ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-02 13:53                                       ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-02 13:53                                         ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-31 18:03                   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 18:03                     ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-26 18:31     ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-26 18:31       ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-27  9:02       ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-27  9:02         ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-26 16:01 ` [PATCH] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables v2 Larry Woodman
2012-07-26 16:01   ` Larry Woodman
2012-07-27  8:47   ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-27  8:47     ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-26 21:00 ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-26 21:00   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-26 21:54   ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-26 21:54     ` Hugh Dickins
2012-07-27  8:52   ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-27  8:52     ` Mel Gorman

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