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Message-ID: <489314FE.7080900@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:51:58 -0500
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
CC: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC:Patch: 000/008](memory hotplug) rough idea of pgdat removing
Yasunori Goto wrote:
> I thought it at first, but are there the following worst case?
>
>
> CPU 0 CPU 1
> -------------------------------------------------------
> __alloc_pages()
>
> parsing_zonelist()
> :
> enter page_reclarim()
> sleep (and remember zone) :
> :
> update zonelist and node_online_map
> with stop_machine_run()
> free pgdat().
> remove the Node electrically.
>
> wake up and touch remembered
> zone, but it is removed
> (Oops!!!)
>
>
>
> Anyway, I'm happy if there is better way than my poor idea. :-)
>
> Thanks for your comment.
Duh. Then the use of RCU would also mean that all of reclaim must be in a rcu period. So reclaim cannot sleep anymore.
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