From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: lockdep complaints in slab allocator
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:01:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259010117.17871.473.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259006475.15619.16.camel@penberg-laptop>
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:01 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 21:50 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > > > That turns out to be _very_ hard. How about something like the following
> > > > untested patch which delays slab_destroy() while we're under nc->lock.
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 13:30 -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > Code changes to deal with a diagnostic issue?
> >
> > OK, fair enough. If I suffer permanent brain damage from staring at the
> > SLAB code for too long, I hope you and Matt will chip in to pay for my
> > medication.
You Europeans and your droll health care jokes.
> Maybe something like this untested patch fixes the issue...
This looks like a much better approach.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-23 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-18 18:12 Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-20 6:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-20 9:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-20 10:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-20 10:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-20 11:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-20 14:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-20 15:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-20 16:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-20 15:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-23 19:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-23 19:10 ` Matt Mackall
2009-11-23 19:13 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-24 16:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 17:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-24 17:12 ` Matt Mackall
2009-11-24 17:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-24 18:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 18:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-24 18:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 18:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-24 18:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-24 19:23 ` Matt Mackall
2009-11-24 19:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-24 20:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 20:53 ` Matt Mackall
2009-11-24 21:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 21:03 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-24 21:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 21:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-24 21:22 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-24 21:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-24 21:46 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-24 22:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-25 7:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-25 7:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-27 17:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-24 21:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-24 21:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-24 21:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-24 22:55 ` Matt Mackall
2009-11-25 21:59 ` David Rientjes
2009-11-25 23:06 ` Matt Mackall
2009-11-27 17:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-30 23:14 ` David Rientjes
2009-12-01 0:21 ` Matt Mackall
2009-12-01 22:41 ` David Rientjes
2009-12-01 16:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-27 17:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-23 19:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-23 19:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-23 19:50 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-23 20:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-23 20:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-23 21:01 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2009-11-24 16:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-24 20:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-24 21:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-25 10:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-11-24 21:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-30 16:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
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