From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
adobriyan@gmail.com, willy@infradead.org, mguzik@redhat.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v4 PATCH] mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:40:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180418094019.GH19578@uranus.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180418090314.GU17484@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:03:14AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > >
> > > What about something like the following?
> > > "
> > > arg_lock protects concurent updates but we still need mmap_sem for read
> > > to exclude races with do_brk.
> > > "
> > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> >
> > Yes, thanks! Andrew, could you slightly update the changelog please?
>
> No, I meant it to be a comment in the _code_.
Ah, I see. Then small patch on top should do the trick.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-18 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-14 18:24 Yang Shi
2018-04-15 20:49 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-04-17 18:29 ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-17 20:39 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-04-18 8:00 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-17 20:52 ` Yang Shi
2018-04-18 8:05 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-18 9:02 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2018-04-18 9:03 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-18 9:40 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2018-04-18 18:18 ` Yang Shi
2018-04-18 10:11 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-04-18 18:48 ` Yang Shi
2018-04-18 22:59 ` Kirill Tkhai
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