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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

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>

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/