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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Always sanity check anon_vma first for per-vma locks
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:14:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZhgaXWprPHnh5LTt@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZhgDFJGsFsTjWokU@x1n>

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:34:44AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
>    If the answer is yes, I'd say please provide some document patch to
>    support such behavior, you can stop my patch from getting merged now,
>    but it's never clear whether someone else will see this and post it
>    again.  If it wasn't obviously to Suren who introduced per-vma lock [1],
>    then I won't be surprised it's unknown to most developers on the list.

Anyone touching this path should have a good idea about what is and is
not the common case.  Your confidence greatly exceeded your ability
here.  I will not be submitting such a patch.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-11 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-10 17:06 Peter Xu
2024-04-10 20:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]   ` <Zhb6B8UsidEEbFu3@x1n>
2024-04-10 21:10     ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-10 21:23       ` Peter Xu
2024-04-10 23:59         ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-11  0:20           ` Peter Xu
2024-04-11 14:50             ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-11 15:34               ` Peter Xu
2024-04-11 17:14                 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2024-04-11 15:42   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-11 17:13 ` Liam R. Howlett
     [not found]   ` <ZhhSItiyLYBEdAX3@x1n>
2024-04-11 21:27     ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-11 21:46       ` Peter Xu
2024-04-11 22:02         ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-12  3:14           ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-12 12:38             ` Peter Xu
2024-04-12 13:06               ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-12 14:16                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-12 14:53                   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-12 15:19                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-12 15:31                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-13 21:46                         ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-13 22:52                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-13 23:11                             ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-13 21:41                       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-13 22:46                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-15 15:58                       ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-15 16:13                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-15 16:19                           ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-15 16:26                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-12 12:46             ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-12 13:32               ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-12 13:46                 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-26 14:00             ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-26 15:07               ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-26 15:28                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-26 15:32                   ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2024-04-26 15:50                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-26 15:32                 ` Liam R. Howlett

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