Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:50:51 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>,
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        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
        Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>, aswin@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/14] mm, hugetlb: retry if failed to allocate and
 there is concurrent user
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On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:47:00 -0800 Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote:

> > 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. 
> 
> It doesn't seem to depend on anything. All 1-7 patches apply cleanly on
> linux-next, the last change to mm/hugetlb.c was commit 3ebac7fa (mm:
> dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE).
> 
> >  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?
> 
> I don't think it's too serious, afaik it's a theoretical race and I
> haven't seen any bug reports for it. So we can probably just wait for
> 3.14, as you say, it's already late in the cycle anyways.

OK, thanks.

> Just let me
> know what you want to do so we can continue working on the actual
> performance issue.

A resend after -rc1 would suit.
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