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Message-ID: <e5d67774-a006-e533-d928-64a4407cbb16@virtuozzo.com>
Date:   Sun, 5 Aug 2018 08:30:43 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, vdavydov.dev@...il.com,
        mhocko@...e.com, aryabinin@...tuozzo.com, ying.huang@...el.com,
        penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp, shakeelb@...gle.com,
        jbacik@...com, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Use special value SHRINKER_REGISTERING instead
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On 05.08.2018 03:03, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 09:42:05PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>> This is exactly the thing the patch makes. Instead of inserting a shrinker pointer
>> to idr, it inserts a fake value SHRINKER_REGISTERING there. The patch makes impossible
>> to dereference a shrinker unless it's completely registered. 
> 
> -       id = idr_alloc(&shrinker_idr, shrinker, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       id = idr_alloc(&shrinker_idr, SHRINKER_REGISTERING, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Instead:
> 
> +       id = idr_alloc(&shrinker_idr, NULL, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> ... and the rest of your patch becomes even simpler.

The patch, we are discussing at the moment, does *exactly* this:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/3/588

It looks like you missed this hunk in the patch.