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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: mhocko@suse.com, jweiner@fb.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, show_mem: drop pgdat_resize_lock in show_mem()
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:07:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181128140751.e79de952a3fdfdac3aab75e9@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181128210815.2134-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com>

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 05:08:15 +0800 Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> wrote:

> Function show_mem() is used to print system memory status when user
> requires or fail to allocate memory. Generally, this is a best effort
> information and not willing to affect core mm subsystem.
> 
> The data protected by pgdat_resize_lock is mostly correct except there is:
> 
>    * page struct defer init
>    * memory hotplug

What is the advantage in doing this?  What problem does the taking of
that lock cause?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-28 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-28 21:08 Wei Yang
2018-11-28 22:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-11-29  1:52   ` Wei Yang
2018-11-29  8:17 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-29  9:32   ` Wei Yang
2018-11-29 15:04   ` Wei Yang
2018-11-29 15:49     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-29 16:05       ` Wei Yang
2018-11-29 16:18         ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-29 23:49           ` Wei Yang
2018-11-29 23:55 ` [PATCH v2] " Wei Yang
2018-11-30  8:17   ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-30  8:54   ` osalvador

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