From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, thp: close race between mremap() and split_huge_page()
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 14:14:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140508181416.GN19914@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANN689GqmdRpOOHV7uYCLgu+xKcYQ5_ESw7+-djNpVGo=D-+WQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 05:13:32PM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> > Fixes: 108d6642ad81 ("mm anon rmap: remove anon_vma_moveto_tail")
>
> I think 108d6642ad81 on its own was OK (as it always took the locks);
> but the attempt to not take them in the common case in 38a76013ad80 is
> where I forgot to consider the THP case.
108d6642ad81 replaced the chain ordering with an explicit lock, but I
see the unconditional locking only in move_ptes(), which isn't called
for THP pmds.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-08 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-05 22:13 Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-06 8:43 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-07 20:55 ` David Miller
2014-05-06 13:06 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-05-08 0:13 ` Michel Lespinasse
2014-05-08 18:14 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2014-05-09 8:44 ` Michel Lespinasse
2014-05-06 14:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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