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Date:   Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:54:07 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Consider subtrees in memory.events
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Hello,

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 03:52:10PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > All .events files generate aggregated stateful notifications.  For
> > anyone to do anything, they'd have to remember the previous state to
> > identify what actually happened.  Being hierarchical, it'd of course
> > need to walk down when an event triggers.
> 
> And how do you do that in a raceless fashion?

Hmm... I'm having trouble imagining why this would be a problem.  How
would it race?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun