From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:10:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120410191059.GA5678@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120410170732.18750.64274.stgit@zurg>
On 04/10, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>
> This patch moves sync_mm_rss() into mm_release(), and moves mm_release() out of
> do_exit() and calls it earlier. After mm_release() there should be no page-faults.
Can't prove, but I feel there should be a simpler fix...
Anyway, this patch is not exactly correct.
> @@ -959,9 +959,10 @@ void do_exit(long code)
> preempt_count());
>
> acct_update_integrals(tsk);
> - /* sync mm's RSS info before statistics gathering */
> - if (tsk->mm)
> - sync_mm_rss(tsk->mm);
> +
> + /* Release mm and sync mm's RSS info before statistics gathering */
> + mm_release(tsk, tsk->mm);
This breaks kthread_stop() at least.
The exiting kthread shouldn't do complete_vfork_done() until it
sets ->exit_code.
Oleg.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-10 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-09 20:03 [PATCH] mm: sync rss-counters at the end of exit_mm() Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-09 21:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-09 22:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-10 0:33 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-04-10 6:34 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-10 16:04 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-04-10 0:35 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-04-10 5:43 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-10 17:07 ` [PATCH v2] mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-10 18:43 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-10 19:52 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-10 19:10 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-04-10 20:09 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-12 8:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: set task exit code before complete_vfork_done() Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-12 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-12 23:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-20 17:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-20 19:23 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-20 20:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-04-25 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-12 8:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: call complete_vfork_done() after clearing child_tid and flushing rss-counters Konstantin Khlebnikov
2012-04-12 23:39 ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-13 6:43 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
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