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From: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv2 2/2] Change khugepaged to respect MMF_THP_DISABLE flag
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:58:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140120195812.GD18196@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140118234957.GB10970@node.dhcp.inet.fi>

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 01:49:57AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> __khugepaged_enter() has VM_BUG_ON(khugepaged_test_exit(mm)).
> Do we really want to crash there if MMF_THP_DISABLE is set?

No, definitely not.  Upon review, khugepaged_test_exit is the wrong
place to do this check.  I think I need to move it up to
khugepaged_scan_mm_slot for this to work correctly.  Thanks for pointing
that out, Kirill.

- Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-20 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-16 21:01 [RFC PATCHv2 1/2] Add mm flag to control THP Alex Thorlton
2014-01-16 21:01 ` [RFC PATCHv2 2/2] Change khugepaged to respect MMF_THP_DISABLE flag Alex Thorlton
2014-01-17 20:34   ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-17 22:58     ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-18 23:49   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-01-20 19:58     ` Alex Thorlton [this message]
2014-01-20 20:15       ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-20 20:41         ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-22 17:45           ` [PATCH 0/2] mm->def_flags cleanups (Was: Change khugepaged to respect MMF_THP_DISABLE flag) Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 17:46             ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: kill the unnecessary mm->def_flags setting in load_elf_binary() Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 17:46             ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: thp: kill the bogus ->def_flags check in hugepage_madvise() Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 20:16               ` Hugh Dickins
2014-01-23 16:43                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-24 14:19                   ` Gerald Schaefer
2014-01-22 18:11             ` [PATCH 0/2] mm->def_flags cleanups (Was: Change khugepaged to respect MMF_THP_DISABLE flag) Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 18:40             ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-22 19:25               ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 19:43                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 20:02                   ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-23 16:47                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-17 19:54 ` [RFC PATCHv2 1/2] Add mm flag to control THP Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-17 22:54   ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-17 20:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-17 22:52   ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-18 23:41 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-01-20 17:26   ` Alex Thorlton

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