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From: "Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: "virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org"
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	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
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	"mhocko@kernel.org" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 2/2] virtio_balloon: replace oom notifier with shrinker
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 12:44:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <286AC319A985734F985F78AFA26841F7397222E8@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8d25019-1990-f0dd-c83d-e4def5b5f7fe@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>

On Monday, August 6, 2018 6:29 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2018/08/06 18:56, Wei Wang wrote:
> > On 08/03/2018 08:11 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >> On 2018/08/03 17:32, Wei Wang wrote:
> >>> +static int virtio_balloon_register_shrinker(struct virtio_balloon
> >>> +*vb) {
> >>> +    vb->shrinker.scan_objects = virtio_balloon_shrinker_scan;
> >>> +    vb->shrinker.count_objects = virtio_balloon_shrinker_count;
> >>> +    vb->shrinker.batch = 0;
> >>> +    vb->shrinker.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS;
> >> Why flags field is not set? If vb is allocated by kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
> >> and is nowhere zero-cleared, KASAN would complain it.
> >
> > Could you point where in the code that would complain it?
> > I only see two shrinker flags (NUMA_AWARE and MEMCG_AWARE), and
> they seem not related to that.
> 
> Where is vb->shrinker.flags initialized?

Is that mandatory to be initialized? I find it's not initialized in most shrinkers (e.g. zs_register_shrinker, huge_zero_page_shrinker).

Best,
Wei

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-06 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-03  8:32 [PATCH v3 0/2] virtio-balloon: some improvements Wei Wang
2018-08-03  8:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] virtio-balloon: remove BUG() in init_vqs Wei Wang
2018-08-03  8:32 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] virtio_balloon: replace oom notifier with shrinker Wei Wang
2018-08-03 12:11   ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-08-06  9:56     ` Wei Wang
2018-08-06 10:29       ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-08-06 12:44         ` Wang, Wei W [this message]
2018-08-06 13:28           ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-08-06 14:02             ` Wang, Wei W
2018-08-03 19:15   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-08-06  3:29     ` Wei Wang

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