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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix migration races in rmap_walk()
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:04:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100426230412.GL8860@random.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1272321478-28481-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie>

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:37:56PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The other issues raised about expand_downwards will need to be re-examined to
> see if they still exist and transparent hugepage support will need further
> thinking to see if split_huge_page() can deal with these situations.

So patch 1 is for aa.git too, and patch 2 is only for mainline with
the new anon-vma changes (patch 2 not needed in current aa.git, and if
I apply it, it'll deadlock so...) right?

split_huge_page is somewhat simpler and more strict in its checking
than migrate.c in this respect, and yes patch 2 will also need to be
extended to cover split_huge_page the moment I stop backing out the
new anon-vma code (but it won't be any different, whatever works for
migrate will also work for split_huge_page later).

For now I'm much more interested in patch 1 and I'll leave patch 2 to
mainline digestion and check it later hope to find all issues fixed by
the time transparent hugepage gets merged.

About patch 1 it's very interesting because I looked at the race
against fork and migrate yesterday and I didn't see issues but I'm
going to read your patch 1 in detail now to understand what is the
problem you're fixing.

Good you posted this fast, so I can try to help ;)
Andrea

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-26 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-26 22:37 [PATCH 0/2] Fix migration races in rmap_walk() Mel Gorman
2010-04-26 22:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm,migration: During fork(), wait for migration to end if migration PTE is encountered Mel Gorman
2010-04-26 23:28   ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-27  0:08   ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-26 22:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm,migration: Prevent rmap_walk_[anon|ksm] seeing the wrong VMA information Mel Gorman
2010-04-26 23:05   ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-27  0:30     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-27  9:17     ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-26 23:15   ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-27  0:07   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-27  3:50     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-27  4:03       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-27  8:59       ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-27  9:09         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-27 10:29           ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-27 15:37             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-04-27 16:35               ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-27  0:30   ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-27  0:31     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-27  2:13       ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-26 23:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]

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