Re: [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore

Ingo Molnar
2016-03-31T09:20:05Z

* Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Wed 30-03-16 15:32:17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 01:58:14PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > I have tested on x86 with OOM situations with high mmap_sem contention
> > > (basically many parallel page faults racing with many parallel mmap/munmap
> > > tight loops) so the waiters for the write locks are routinely interrupted
> > > by SIGKILL.
> >
> > Aside from the one niggle (as per the other email) they look good to me
> > and I would take them through the tip/locking tree.
>
> Thanks for the review! I understand that tip/locking would be the most
> appropriate place [...]

Yes.

> [...] but I am wondering whether this causes some issues with the follow up
> patches which use this new API and which I expect to go via Andrew's tree.

So AFAIK Andrew's tree is based on top of linux-next, so once it goes into
tip:locking/core, -mm can pick it up as well 1-2 days later.

Please send the changes in isolation, for merge into the locking tree.

Thanks,

Ingo