From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, joelaf@google.com,
jszhang@marvell.com, joaodias@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm: mark all calls into the vmalloc subsystem as potentially sleeping
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:05:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161019130552.GB5876@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161019111541.GQ29358@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:15:41PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 08:56:07AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This is how everyone seems to already use them, but let's make that
> > explicit.
>
> Ah, found an exception, vmapped stacks:
Oh, fun. So if we can't require vfree to be called from process context
we also can't use a mutex to wait for the vmap flushing. Given that we
free stacks from the scheduler context switch I also fear there is no
good way to get a sleepable context there.
The only other idea I had was to use vmap_area_lock for the protection
that purge_lock currently provides, but that would require some serious
refactoring to avoid recursive locking first.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-19 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-18 6:56 [RFC] reduce latency in __purge_vmap_area_lazy Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-18 6:56 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: refactor __purge_vmap_area_lazy Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-18 6:56 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: mark all calls into the vmalloc subsystem as potentially sleeping Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-18 10:33 ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-18 10:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-19 11:15 ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-19 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-10-19 15:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-19 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-19 19:43 ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-21 0:32 ` Joel Fernandes
2016-11-08 13:24 ` Joel Fernandes
2016-11-08 14:32 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-10-18 6:56 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm: remove free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-18 6:56 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm: remove free_unmap_vmap_area_addr Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-21 0:46 ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-21 1:58 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-18 6:56 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: turn vmap_purge_lock into a mutex Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-18 6:56 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: add preempt points into __purge_vmap_area_lazy Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-18 20:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-10-18 21:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-10-18 10:40 ` [RFC] reduce latency in __purge_vmap_area_lazy Nicholas Piggin
2016-10-18 11:21 ` Jisheng Zhang
2016-10-21 1:08 ` Joel Fernandes
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