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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linux MM" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"DRI Development" <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"Intel Graphics Development" <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
	"David Rientjes" <rientjes@google.com>,
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
	"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	"Masahiro Yamada" <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	"Wei Wang" <wvw@google.com>,
	"Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Jann Horn" <jannh@google.com>, "Feng Tang" <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] kernel.h: Add non_block_start/end()
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:14:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190822161428.c9e4479207386d34745ea111@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190820202440.GH11147@phenom.ffwll.local>

On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 22:24:40 +0200 Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> Iirc you've been involved at least somewhat in discussing this. -mm folks
> are a bit undecided whether these new non_block semantics are a good idea.
> Michal Hocko still is in support, but Andrew Morton and Jason Gunthorpe
> are less enthusiastic. Jason said he's ok with merging the hmm side of
> this if scheduler folks ack. If not, then I'll respin with the
> preempt_disable/enable instead like in v1.

I became mollified once Michel explained the rationale.  I think it's
OK.  It's very specific to the oom reaper and hopefully won't be used
more widely(?).



  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-22 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-20  8:18 [PATCH 0/4] mmu notifier debug annotations/checks Daniel Vetter
2019-08-20  8:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm, notifier: Add a lockdep map for invalidate_range_start/end Daniel Vetter
2019-08-20 13:31   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-20  8:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm, notifier: Prime lockdep Daniel Vetter
2019-08-20 13:31   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-20  8:19 ` [PATCH 3/4] kernel.h: Add non_block_start/end() Daniel Vetter
2019-08-20 20:24   ` Daniel Vetter
2019-08-22 23:14     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2019-08-23  8:34       ` Daniel Vetter
2019-08-23 12:12         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-23 12:22           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-23 13:42           ` Daniel Vetter
2019-08-23 14:06             ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-23 15:15               ` Daniel Vetter
2019-08-23  8:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-20  8:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm, notifier: Catch sleeping/blocking for !blockable Daniel Vetter
2019-08-20 13:34   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-20 15:18     ` Daniel Vetter
2019-08-20 15:27       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-21  9:34         ` Daniel Vetter
2019-08-21 15:41       ` Daniel Vetter
2019-08-21 16:16         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-22  8:42           ` Daniel Vetter
2019-08-22 14:24             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-22 14:27               ` Daniel Vetter

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