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From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Gargi Sharma <gs051095@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, julia.lawall@lip6.fr,
	mingo@kernel.org, pasha.tatashin@oracle.com,
	ktkhai@virtuozzo.com, oleg@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	hch@infradead.org, lkp@intel.com, tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] pid: Replace pid bitmap implementation with IDR API
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:54:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1507769672.21121.192.camel@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171011153716.5cd0689bb7030b886b0d62f9@linux-foundation.org>

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On Wed, 2017-10-11 at 15:37 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:19:38 -0400 Gargi Sharma <gs051095@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > This patch replaces the current bitmap implemetation for
> > Process ID allocation. Functions that are no longer required,
> > for example, free_pidmap(), alloc_pidmap(), etc. are removed.
> > The rest of the functions are modified to use the IDR API.
> > The change was made to make the PID allocation less complex by
> > replacing custom code with calls to generic API.
> 
> I still don't understand the locking.  spin_lock_irq(&pidmap_lock) in
> some places, rcu_read_lock() in others.
> 
> If the locking is indeed now correct, can we please get it fully
> documented?  A comment at the pid_namespace.idr definition site would
> suit.

Would you like me to send a follow-up patch to document the
locking?

Documenting the locking on all the existing code, plus the
new code, seems a little out of scope of an Outreachy
internship...

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-12  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-11 22:19 [PATCH v6 0/2] Replacing PID bitmap implementation with IDR API Gargi Sharma
2017-10-11 22:19 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] pid: Replace pid " Gargi Sharma
2017-10-11 22:28   ` Rik van Riel
2017-10-11 22:37   ` Andrew Morton
2017-10-12  0:54     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2017-10-12 22:58       ` Andrew Morton
2017-10-13 14:58         ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-10-19  7:30   ` [v6,1/2] " Andrei Vagin
2017-10-19 13:20     ` Gargi Sharma
2017-10-19 16:18     ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-10-20 16:06       ` Gargi Sharma
2017-10-20 17:21         ` Andrei Vagin
2017-10-22  8:05           ` Gargi Sharma
2017-10-23 15:31             ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-10-11 22:19 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] pid: Remove pidhash Gargi Sharma
2017-10-11 22:28   ` Rik van Riel
2017-10-11 22:47   ` Luck, Tony

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