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From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmalloc performance
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:12:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h2m28c262361004140812y92447e97z29c001d0a8b8eaaf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271255053.7196.89.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Also, what lock should be protecting this code:
>
>        va->flags |= VM_LAZY_FREE;
>        atomic_add((va->va_end - va->va_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT,
> &vmap_lazy_nr);
>
> in free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush() ? It seem that if
> __purge_vmap_area_lazy runs between the two statements above that the
> number of pages contained in vmap_lazy_nr will be incorrect. Maybe the
> two statements should just be reversed? I can't see any reason that the
> flag assignment would be atomic either. In recent tests, including the
> patch below, the following has been reported to me:

It was already fixed.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/89783/

Thanks.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-14 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-12 16:27 vmalloc performance Steven Whitehouse
2010-04-14 12:49 ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-04-14 14:24   ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-04-14 15:12     ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2010-04-14 15:13   ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-14 16:35     ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-15  8:33       ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-04-15 16:51         ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-16 14:10           ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-04-18 15:14             ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-19 12:58               ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-04-19 14:12                 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-29 13:43                   ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-05-02 17:29                     ` [PATCH] cache last free vmap_area to avoid restarting beginning Minchan Kim
2010-05-05 12:48                       ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-05-05 16:16                         ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-17 12:42                           ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-05-18 13:44                             ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-05-19 13:54                           ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-05-19 13:56                             ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-25  8:43                             ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-25 15:00                               ` Minchan Kim
2010-05-25 15:48                                 ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-05-22  9:53                           ` Minchan Kim
2010-05-24  6:23                             ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-19 13:38               ` vmalloc performance Nick Piggin
2010-04-19 14:09                 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-16  6:12         ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-16  7:20           ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-16  8:50           ` Steven Whitehouse

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