From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] __free_pages_ok oops
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:47:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C618863.DA7AC3B9@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0202061844450.1856-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> Sorry, no solution, but maybe another oops in __free_pages_ok might help?
What problem are you trying to solve?
>
> --- 2.4.18-pre8/mm/page_alloc.c Tue Feb 5 12:55:36 2002
> +++ linux/mm/page_alloc.c Wed Feb 6 18:31:07 2002
> @@ -73,9 +73,11 @@
> /* Yes, think what happens when other parts of the kernel take
> * a reference to a page in order to pin it for io. -ben
> */
> - if (PageLRU(page))
> + if (PageLRU(page)) {
> + if (in_interrupt())
> + BUG();
> lru_cache_del(page);
> -
> + }
Yes. lru_cache_del() in interrupt context will deadlock on SMP
or wreck the LRU list on UP. I can't see how we can ever perform
the final release of a PageLRU page in interrupt context but I agree
this test is a good one.
-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-06 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-06 19:06 [PATCH] __free_pages_ok oops Hugh Dickins
2002-02-06 19:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-02-06 20:15 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-06 21:11 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 20:31 ` Manfred Spraul
2002-02-07 5:09 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-02-07 5:47 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 5:55 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-07 6:19 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 6:49 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-07 7:07 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 11:52 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-07 12:34 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 12:37 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-07 12:44 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 13:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-07 13:27 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 13:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07 14:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-07 14:56 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-07 20:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-07 20:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-07 21:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 22:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-07 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-07 23:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-07 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-08 17:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-09 14:14 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-02-09 15:47 ` arjan
2002-02-09 14:33 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-02-12 20:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-13 18:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-02-14 10:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-14 11:10 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-02-14 13:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-14 14:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-14 15:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-14 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-25 18:32 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-02-25 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-07 9:48 ` Benjamin LaHaise
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-09 8:52 alad
2002-02-09 10:46 ` Hugh Dickins
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