From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"yamamoto@valinux.co.jp" <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>,
"riel@redhat.com" <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Clarify mem_cgroup lock handling and avoid races.
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:14:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080220121455.d4e4daf6.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802191449490.6254@blonde.site>
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:40:45 +0000 (GMT)
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> I haven't completed my solution in mem_cgroup_move_lists yet: but
> the way it wants a lock in a structure which isn't stabilized until
> it's got that lock, reminds me very much of my page_lock_anon_vma,
> so I'm expecting to use a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU cache there.
>
Could I make a question about anon_vma's RCU ?
I think SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU guarantees that slab's page is not freed back
to buddy allocator while some holds rcu_read_lock().
Why it's safe against reusing freed one by slab fast path (array_cache) ?
Thanks,
-Kame
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 12:54 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-19 15:40 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-20 1:03 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 4:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-20 4:37 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 4:39 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-20 4:41 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 6:40 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 7:23 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 3:14 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [this message]
2008-02-20 3:37 ` YAMAMOTO Takashi
2008-02-20 4:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 4:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-20 5:57 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 9:58 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2008-02-20 10:06 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-20 10:11 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 10:18 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-20 10:55 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 11:21 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 11:18 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 11:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 11:34 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 11:44 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-20 11:41 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-20 11:36 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 11:55 ` Paul Menage
2008-02-21 2:49 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2008-02-21 6:35 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-21 9:07 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2008-02-21 9:21 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-21 9:28 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-21 9:44 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-22 3:31 ` [RFC] Block I/O Cgroup Hirokazu Takahashi
2008-02-22 5:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-22 5:45 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2008-02-21 9:25 ` [RFC][PATCH] Clarify mem_cgroup lock handling and avoid races Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 6:27 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2008-02-20 6:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 8:32 ` Clean up force_empty (Was Re: [RFC][PATCH] Clarify mem_cgroup lock handling and avoid races.) KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 10:07 ` Clean up force_empty Hirokazu Takahashi
2008-02-22 9:24 ` [RFC][PATCH] Clarify mem_cgroup lock handling and avoid races Hugh Dickins
2008-02-22 10:07 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-22 10:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-22 10:34 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-22 10:50 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2008-02-22 11:14 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-22 12:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-22 12:28 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-22 12:53 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-25 3:18 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-19 15:54 ` kamezawa.hiroyu
2008-02-19 16:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-20 1:55 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 2:05 ` YAMAMOTO Takashi
2008-02-20 2:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-20 2:32 ` YAMAMOTO Takashi
2008-02-20 4:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-20 6:38 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 11:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-20 11:32 ` Balbir Singh
2008-02-20 14:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-20 5:00 ` Balbir Singh
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