linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: offlining memory may block forever

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Message-ID: <20120621130432.GB3953@csn.ul.ie>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:04:32 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar.30@...il.com>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	stable@...nel.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, tim.bird@...sony.com,
	frank.rowand@...sony.com, takuzo.ohara@...sony.com,
	kan.iibuchi@...sony.com, aaditya.kumar@...sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: offlining memory may block forever

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:53:31PM +0530, Aaditya Kumar wrote:
> Offlining memory may block forever, waiting for kswapd() to wake up because
> kswapd() does not check the event kthread->should_stop before sleeping.
> 

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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