From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
"hannes@cmpxchg.org" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] writeback: introduce the pageout work
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:57:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120302115700.7d970497.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120302103951.GA13378@localhost>
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:39:51 +0800
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> > And I agree it's unlikely but given enough time and people, I
> > believe someone finds a way to (inadvertedly) trigger this.
>
> Right. The pageout works could add lots more iput() to the flusher
> and turn some hidden statistical impossible bugs into real ones.
>
> Fortunately the "flusher deadlocks itself" case is easy to detect and
> prevent as illustrated in another email.
It would be a heck of a lot safer and saner to avoid the iput(). We
know how to do this, so why not do it?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-02 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 14:00 [PATCH 0/9] [RFC] pageout work and dirty reclaim throttling Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 1/9] memcg: add page_cgroup flags for dirty page tracking Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 0:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-04 1:29 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 2/9] memcg: add dirty page accounting infrastructure Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-29 0:27 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 3/9] memcg: add kernel calls for memcg dirty page stats Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 1:10 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 4/9] memcg: dirty page accounting support routines Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 15:15 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 22:45 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-29 1:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 5/9] writeback: introduce the pageout work Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 0:04 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-29 2:31 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 13:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 11:04 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-01 11:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 16:50 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-01 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-03 13:25 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-07 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-07 5:40 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 19:42 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-01 21:15 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-01 21:22 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-01 12:36 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 16:38 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-02 4:48 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 9:59 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-02 10:39 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 19:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-03-03 13:55 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-03 14:27 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-04 11:13 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-07 15:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 7:31 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-09 9:51 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-09 10:24 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 16:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 21:11 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-12 12:36 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-12 14:02 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-12 14:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 10:15 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-09 15:10 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 " Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 13:35 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 6:22 ` [PATCH v3 " Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 6/9] vmscan: dirty reclaim throttling Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 7/9] mm: pass __GFP_WRITE to memcg charge and reclaim routines Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm: dont set __GFP_WRITE on ramfs/sysfs writes Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 10:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-03-01 10:30 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm: debug vmscan waits Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 6:59 ` [RFC PATCH] mm: don't treat anonymous pages as dirtyable pages Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 7:18 ` Fengguang Wu
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