linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [0/11] SYSCTL: Use RCU to avoid races with string sysctls

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Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:50:10 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/11] SYSCTL: Use RCU to avoid races with string
	sysctls

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:57:32AM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > new = alloc_rcu_string(MAX_GLOBAL_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> I think adding failure mode is not right.
> We can get away with per-sysctl-string spinlock and not introduce yet
> another API.

You mean when running out of memory here?

When this runs out of memory the system will be not usable anyways
and on the last legs and likely in a deadly swap storm. 

-Andi

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