From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, hughd@google.com,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
andi@firstfloor.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mempolicy: Kill all mempolicy sharing
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:41:22 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205301439410.31768@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338368529-21784-3-git-send-email-kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
On Wed, 30 May 2012, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com wrote:
> refcount will be decreased even though was not increased whenever alloc_page_vma()
> is called. As you know, mere mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE) calls alloc_page_vma().
Most of these issues are about memory migration and shared memory. If we
exempt shared memory from memory migration (after all that shared memory
has its own distinct memory policies already!) then a lot of these issues
wont arise.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 9:02 [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 9:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] Revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages" kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 19:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 19:39 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 19:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-31 6:49 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 9:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] mempolicy: Kill all mempolicy sharing kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 19:41 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2012-05-30 19:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 19:48 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 20:31 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 20:58 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 9:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace() kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 9:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy() kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 9:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma() kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 20:37 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 9:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Added MEMPOLICY entry kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 19:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 18:26 ` [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet Linus Torvalds
2012-05-30 18:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 18:46 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 18:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 19:32 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 19:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 19:52 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 20:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 21:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-05-30 21:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 19:54 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 20:10 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 20:16 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-01 0:45 ` david
2012-06-01 13:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:31 ` david
2012-06-01 19:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-05 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-05 19:17 ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-06 19:10 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-30 20:10 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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