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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:53:43 -0400
From: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] hugetlbfs: Limit wait time when trying to share huge
PMD
On 9/12/19 12:40 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>
> I also think that the right solution is within the mm instead of adding
> a new api to rwsem and the extra complexity/overhead to osq _just_ for
> this
> case. We've managed to not need timeout extensions in our locking
> primitives
> thus far, which is a good thing imo.
Adding a variant with timeout can be useful in resolving some potential
deadlock issues found by lockdep. Anyway, there were talk about merging
rt-mutex and regular mutex in the LPC last week. So we will need to have
mutex_lock() variant with timeout for that to happen.
Cheers,
Longman
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