From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:32:17 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore Message-Id: <20160330133217.GV3408@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> List-Id: References: <1456750705-7141-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1456750705-7141-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michal Hocko Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , "David S. Miller" , Tony Luck , Andrew Morton , Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , x86@kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org 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!