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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	liliang.opensource@gmail.com, yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com,
	quan.xu0@gmail.com, nilal@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com,
	huangzhichao@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v29 1/4] mm: support reporting free page blocks
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:07:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180327190635-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180327063322.GW5652@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 08:33:22AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > + * The function itself might sleep so it cannot be called from atomic
> > > > + * contexts.
> > > I don't see how walk_free_mem_block() can sleep.
> > 
> > OK, it would be better to remove this sentence for the current version. But
> > I think we could probably keep it if we decide to add cond_resched() below.
> 
> The point of this sentence was to make any user aware that the function
> might sleep from the very begining rather than chase existing callers
> when we need to add cond_resched or sleep for any other reason. So I
> would rather keep it.

Let's say what it is then - "will be changed to sleep in the future".

> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-27 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-26  2:39 [PATCH v29 0/4] Virtio-balloon: support free page reporting Wei Wang
2018-03-26  2:39 ` [PATCH v29 1/4] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang
2018-03-26 21:22   ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-27  6:23     ` Wei Wang
2018-03-27  6:33       ` Michal Hocko
2018-03-27 16:07         ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-03-28  7:01           ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-10 18:19     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-10 20:54       ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-10 23:25         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-11  1:22           ` Wei Wang
2018-03-26  2:39 ` [PATCH v29 2/4] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT Wei Wang
2018-03-26  2:39 ` [PATCH v29 3/4] mm/page_poison: expose page_poisoning_enabled to kernel modules Wei Wang
2018-03-26  3:24   ` Wang, Wei W
2018-03-26 21:24   ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-26  2:39 ` [PATCH v29 4/4] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_PAGE_POISON Wei Wang

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