From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx196.postini.com [74.125.245.196]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32E3F6B0044 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:39:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <50118E7F.8000609@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:37:51 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH -alternative] mm: hugetlbfs: Close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables V2 (resend) References: <20120720134937.GG9222@suse.de> <20120720141108.GH9222@suse.de> <20120720143635.GE12434@tiehlicka.suse.cz> <20120720145121.GJ9222@suse.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mel Gorman , Michal Hocko , Linux-MM , David Gibson , Ken Chen , Cong Wang , LKML , Larry Woodman On 07/23/2012 12:04 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I spent hours trying to dream up a better patch, trying various > approaches. I think I have a nice one now, what do you think? And > more importantly, does it work? I have not tried to test it at all, > that I'm hoping to leave to you, I'm sure you'll attack it with gusto! > > If you like it, please take it over and add your comments and signoff > and send it in. The second part won't come up in your testing, and could > be made a separate patch if you prefer: it's a related point that struck > me while I was playing with a different approach. > > I'm sorely tempted to leave a dangerous pair of eyes off the Cc, > but that too would be unfair. > > Subject-to-your-testing- > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins This patch looks good to me. Larry, does Hugh's patch survive your testing? -- 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: email@kvack.org