From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: mhocko@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
John Dias <joaodias@google.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Allow calling vfree() from non-schedulable context.
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:09:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58c68d9c-ee81-82e0-3a2d-df7dd8f39dcd@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170330082001.GB11344@lst.de>
On 03/30/2017 11:20 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Maybe the right fix is to drop any support for non-user context in
> vfree and call vfree_deferred explicitly?
>
Sounds like a lot of work. Also we could easily miss some calls.
And I don't see the point of it, it's just easier and safer to make vfree()
atomic-safe.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-30 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-29 10:51 Tetsuo Handa
2017-03-29 11:36 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2017-03-29 11:47 ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-29 14:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-03-30 8:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-03-30 10:09 ` Andrey Ryabinin [this message]
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