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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] vmscan: Do not writeback pages in direct reclaim
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:07:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100616050757.GB10687@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100616093958.00673123.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:39:58AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> Hmm. But I don't expect copy_from/to_user is called in very deep stack.

Actually it is.  The poll code mentioned earlier in this thread is just
want nasty example.  I'm pretty sure there are tons of others in ioctl
code, as various ioctl implementations have been found to be massive
stack hogs in the past, even worse for out of tree drivers.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-16  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-14 11:17 [PATCH 0/12] Avoid overflowing of stack during page reclaim V2 Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 01/12] tracing, vmscan: Add trace events for kswapd wakeup, sleeping and direct reclaim Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 15:45   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-14 21:01   ` Larry Woodman
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 02/12] tracing, vmscan: Add trace events for LRU page isolation Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 16:47   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-14 21:02   ` Larry Woodman
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 03/12] tracing, vmscan: Add trace event when a page is written Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 16:48   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-14 21:02   ` Larry Woodman
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 04/12] tracing, vmscan: Add a postprocessing script for reclaim-related ftrace events Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 17:55   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-14 21:03   ` Larry Woodman
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 05/12] vmscan: kill prev_priority completely Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 18:04   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-16 23:37   ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-16 23:45     ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-17  0:18       ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-17  0:34         ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-25  8:29     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-06-28 10:35       ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 06/12] vmscan: simplify shrink_inactive_list() Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 18:06   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 10:13     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 07/12] vmscan: Remove unnecessary temporary vars in do_try_to_free_pages Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 18:14   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 08/12] vmscan: Setup pagevec as late as possible in shrink_inactive_list() Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 18:59   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 10:47   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 15:56     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-16 23:43   ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-17 10:30     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 09/12] vmscan: Setup pagevec as late as possible in shrink_page_list() Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 19:24   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-16 23:48   ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-17 10:46     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 10/12] vmscan: Update isolated page counters outside of main path in shrink_inactive_list() Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 19:42   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 11/12] vmscan: Write out dirty pages in batch Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 21:13   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 10:18     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 23:11   ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-14 23:21     ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-15  0:39       ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-15  1:16         ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15  1:45           ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-15  4:08             ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15  4:37               ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-15  5:12                 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-15  5:43                   ` [patch] mm: vmscan fix mapping use after free Nick Piggin
2010-06-15 13:23                     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 11:01           ` [PATCH 11/12] vmscan: Write out dirty pages in batch Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 13:32             ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15  1:39         ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-15  3:20           ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-15  4:15             ` Andrew Morton
2010-06-15  6:36               ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-15 10:28                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-06-15 10:55                   ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-15 11:10                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 11:20                       ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-15 23:20                     ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-16  6:04                       ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-15 11:08                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 11:43               ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 13:07                 ` tytso
2010-06-15 15:44                 ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 10:57       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 10:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 11:11     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 11:13     ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-14 11:17 ` [PATCH 12/12] vmscan: Do not writeback pages in direct reclaim Mel Gorman
2010-06-14 21:55   ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 11:45     ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 13:34       ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 13:37         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 13:54           ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-16  0:30             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-15 14:02           ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 13:59         ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15 14:04           ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-15 14:16             ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-16  0:17               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-16  0:29                 ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-16  0:39                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-16  0:53                     ` Rik van Riel
2010-06-16  1:40                       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-16  2:20                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-16  5:11                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-16 10:51                             ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-16  5:07                     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-16  5:06                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-17  0:25                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-17  6:16                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-17  6:23                       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-14 15:10 ` [PATCH 0/12] Avoid overflowing of stack during page reclaim V2 Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 11:45   ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-15  0:08 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-06-15 11:49   ` Mel Gorman

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