From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, numa: Fix bad pmd by atomically check for pmd_trans_huge when marking page tables prot_numa
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:38:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1491827904.8850.178.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170410094825.2yfo5zehn7pchg6a@techsingularity.net>
On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 10:48 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> While this could be fixed with heavy locking, it's only necessary to
> make a copy of the PMD on the stack during change_pmd_range and avoid
> races. A new helper is created for this as the check if quite subtle
> and the
> existing similar helpful is not suitable. This passed 154 hours of
> testing
> (usually triggers between 20 minutes and 24 hours) without detecting
> bad
> PMDs or corruption. A basic test of an autonuma-intensive workload
> showed
> no significant change in behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-10 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-10 9:48 [PATCH] mm, numa: Fix bad pmd by atomically check for pmd_trans_huge when marking page tables prot_numa Mel Gorman
2017-04-10 10:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-10 12:19 ` Mel Gorman
2017-04-10 12:38 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2017-04-10 13:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-10 17:38 ` Mel Gorman
2017-04-10 16:45 ` Zi Yan
2017-04-10 17:20 ` Mel Gorman
2017-04-10 17:49 ` Zi Yan
2017-04-10 18:07 ` Mel Gorman
2017-04-10 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2017-04-10 22:28 ` Zi Yan
2017-04-11 6:35 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-04-11 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2017-04-11 8:29 ` Mel Gorman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-02-16 19:18 [PATCH] mm, numa: fix " Rafael Aquini
2020-02-16 23:32 ` Mel Gorman
2020-03-07 2:40 ` Qian Cai
2020-03-07 3:05 ` Rafael Aquini
2020-03-08 3:20 ` Qian Cai
2020-03-08 23:14 ` Rafael Aquini
2020-03-09 3:27 ` Qian Cai
2020-03-09 15:05 ` Rafael Aquini
2020-03-11 0:04 ` Qian Cai
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