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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910011330430.27559@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:35:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>, Wouter Verhelst <w@...r.be>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
trond.myklebust@....uio.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/31] mm: serialize access to min_free_kbytes
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
>
> There is a small race between the procfs caller and the memory hotplug caller
> of setup_per_zone_wmarks(). Not a big deal, but the next patch will add yet
> another caller. Time to close the gap.
>
By "next patch," you mean "mm: emegency pool" (patch 08/31)?
If so, can't you eliminate var_free_mutex entirely from that patch and
take min_free_lock in adjust_memalloc_reserve() instead?
[ __adjust_memalloc_reserve() would call __setup_per_zone_wmarks()
under lock instead, now. ]
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