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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1210171426170.20712@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:27:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
bhutchings@...arflare.com,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch for-3.7] mm, mempolicy: fix printing stack contents in
numa_maps
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > Um, this was just changed to a mutex last week in commit b22d127a39dd
> > ("mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()") so that sp_alloc()
> > can be done with GFP_KERNEL, so I didn't consider reverting that behavior.
> > Are you nacking that patch, which you acked, now?
>
> Yes, sadly. /proc usage is a corner case issue. It's not worth to
> strike main path.
It also simplifies the fastpath since we can now unconditionally drop the
reference.
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