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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compact_pgdat: workaround lockdep warning in kswapd
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:48:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F304A9B.2030004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120206124952.75702d5c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On 02/06/2012 03:49 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:40:08 -0800 (PST)
> Hugh Dickins<hughd@google.com>  wrote:
>
>> I get this lockdep warning from swapping load on linux-next
>> (20120201 but I expect the same from more recent days):
>
> The patch looks good as a standalone optimisation/cleanup.  The lack of
> clarity on the lockdep thing is a concern - I have a feeling we'll be
> bitten again.

Very strange, kswapd does not seem to be holding any locks
when calling balance_pgdat...

I assume it must be this line in kswapd() that's causing
lockdep to trigger:

	lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(GFP_KERNEL);

> This fix seems to be applicable to mainline?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-06 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-06 19:40 [PATCH] compact_pgdat: workaround lockdep warning in kswapd Hugh Dickins
2012-02-06 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-06 21:00   ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-06 21:48   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-02-06 22:14     ` Hugh Dickins
2012-02-09 15:40 ` Mel Gorman

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