Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751650AbaAOEyN (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:54:13 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37426 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751485AbaAOEyL (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:54:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:56:03 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , Mel Gorman , Rik van Riel , Michal Hocko , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Hugh Dickins , Davidlohr Bueso , David Gibson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wanpeng Li , Naoya Horiguchi , Hillf Danton , aswin@hp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/14] mm, hugetlb: retry if failed to allocate and there is concurrent user Message-Id: <20140114205603.f4fd2678.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1389760669.4971.31.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> References: <1387349640-8071-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> <1387349640-8071-14-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> <20131219170202.0df2d82a2adefa3ab616bdaa@linux-foundation.org> <20131220140153.GC11295@suse.de> <1387608497.3119.17.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20131223004438.GA19388@lge.com> <20131223021118.GA2487@lge.com> <1388778945.2956.20.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20140106001938.GB696@lge.com> <1389010745.14953.5.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <20140107015701.GB26726@lge.com> <1389062214.9937.0.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> <1389760669.4971.31.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:37:49 -0800 Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 19:08 -0800, David Rientjes wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > > > > > If Andrew agree, It would be great to merge 1-7 patches into mainline > > > > before your mutex approach. There are some of clean-up patches and, IMO, > > > > it makes the code more readable and maintainable, so it is worth to merge > > > > separately. > > > > > > Fine by me. > > > > > > > It appears like patches 1-7 are still missing from linux-next, would you > > mind posting them in a series with your approach? > > I haven't looked much into patches 4-7, but at least the first three are > ok. I was waiting for Andrew to take all seven for linux-next and then > I'd rebase my approach on top. Anyway, unless Andrew has any > preferences, if by later this week they're not picked up, I'll resend > everything. Well, we're mainly looking for bugfixes this last in the cycle. "[PATCH v3 03/14] mm, hugetlb: protect region tracking via newly introduced resv_map lock" fixes a bug, but I'd assumed that it depended on earlier patches. If we think that one is serious then it would be better to cook up a minimal fix which is backportable into 3.12 and eariler? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/