From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: wait_on_page_bit_common(TASK_KILLABLE, EXCLUSIVE) can miss wakeup?
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:29:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200630182933.GC26512@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgfjK_-Wfkb6yXYpB5WfOv5yP2NiFO68yQfBfnzRu4yYQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/30, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 4:51 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 06/30, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > >
> > > may be someting like this
> >
> > or this ...
>
> Guys, I'd suggest we either
>
> (a) do the minimal ugly one-liner workaround
>
> or
>
> (b) do something *much* more radical.
I agree, and let me repeat I think your one-liner is fine.
I just tried to discuss the possible alternatives to that on-liner for the
start.
> the wake_page_function() would actually do
I swear, I too thought about changing wake_page_function() but got lost ;)
The very fact it returns -1 if test_bit() is true suggests it can do more.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-30 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-24 16:11 wait_on_page_bit_common(TASK_KILLABLE, EXCLUSIVE) can miss wakeup? Oleg Nesterov
2020-06-24 16:20 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-06-24 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-26 15:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-28 5:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-28 13:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-29 3:28 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-06-29 13:16 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-06-29 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-30 2:12 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-06-29 14:02 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-06-30 2:08 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-06-30 6:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-06-30 9:08 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-06-30 10:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-06-30 11:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-06-30 11:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-06-30 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-30 18:29 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2020-06-30 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-29 15:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-06-24 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-24 16:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
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