linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm,migration: Avoid race between shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating temporary stacks
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:10:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE94935.9090200@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100511085752.GM26611@csn.ul.ie>

On 05/11/2010 04:57 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> This patch closes the most important race in relation to exec and
> migration. With it applied, the swapops bug is no longer triggering for
> known problem workloads. If you pick it up, it should go with the other
> mmmigration-* fixes in mm.

> This patch causes pages within the temporary stack during exec to be skipped
> by migration. It does this by marking the VMA covering the temporary stack
> with an otherwise impossible combination of VMA flags. These flags are
> cleared when the temporary stack is moved to its final location.
>
> [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Idea for having migration skip temporary stacks]
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mel@csn.ul.ie>
> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

-- 
All rights reversed

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-11 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-11  8:57 [PATCH] mm,migration: Avoid race between shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating temporary stacks Mel Gorman
2010-05-11 12:10 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-05-11 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-11 17:21   ` Rik van Riel
2010-05-12  0:23 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-12 19:54   ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-12 20:51     ` Mel Gorman
2010-05-12 20:58       ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-12 23:06       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-12 21:33     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-05-13  0:19       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-05-13 17:22         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-05-13 23:51           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4BE94935.9090200@redhat.com \
    --to=riel@redhat.com \
    --cc=aarcange@redhat.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=cl@linux.com \
    --cc=kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=mel@csn.ul.ie \
    --cc=minchan.kim@gmail.com \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).