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Message-ID: <1326381492.2442.188.camel@twins>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:18:12 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Linux-FSDevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...ell.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Gong Chen <gong.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: page allocator: Do not drain per-cpu lists via
IPI from page allocator context
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 10:11 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> At least one bug report has
> been seen on ppc64 against a 3.0 era kernel that looked like a bug
> receiving interrupts on a CPU being offlined.
Got details on that Mel? The preempt_disable() in on_each_cpu() should
serialize against the stop_machine() crap in unplug.
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