From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:38:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180410173841.GD3614@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1804101228170.29384@nuc-kabylake>
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 12:30:23PM -0500, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > If we want to get rid of the concept of constructors, it's doable,
> > but somebody needs to do the work to show what the effects will be.
>
> How do you envision dealing with the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slab caches?
> Those must have a defined state of the objects at all times and a constructor is
> required for that. And their use of RCU is required for numerous lockless
> lookup algorithms in the kernhel.
Not at all times. Only once they've been used. Re-constructing them
once they've been used might break the rcu typesafety, I suppose ...
would need to examine the callers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-10 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-10 12:53 Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-10 12:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] page cache: Mask off unwanted GFP flags Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-10 13:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2018-04-10 13:09 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-10 13:45 ` Minchan Kim
2018-04-10 14:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-10 15:18 ` Jaegeuk Kim
2018-04-10 13:46 ` Jan Kara
2018-04-10 13:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor Johannes Weiner
2018-04-10 13:07 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-10 13:40 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-10 13:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-04-10 16:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-10 17:30 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-10 17:38 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-04-10 17:45 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-10 17:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-10 20:21 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-10 14:21 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-10 14:26 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-10 15:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-10 17:04 ` Christopher Lameter
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