From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B8F6B007B for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:41:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:41:35 +1100 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/4] SLAB: Fix node add timer race in cache_reap Message-ID: <20100215104135.GM5723@laptop> References: <20100211953.850854588@firstfloor.org> <20100211205404.085FEB1978@basil.firstfloor.org> <20100215061535.GI5723@laptop> <20100215103250.GD21783@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100215103250.GD21783@one.firstfloor.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, haicheng.li@intel.com, rientjes@google.com List-ID: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:32:50AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:15:35PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 09:54:04PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > > cache_reap can run before the node is set up and then reference a NULL > > > l3 list. Check for this explicitely and just continue. The node > > > will be eventually set up. > > > > How, may I ask? cpuup_prepare in the hotplug notifier should always > > run before start_cpu_timer. > > I'm not fully sure, but I have the oops to prove it :) Hmm, it would be nice to work out why it's happening. If it's completely reproducible then could I send you a debug patch to test? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org