Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759597Ab2BNIkE (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:40:04 -0500 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:38091 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751300Ab2BNIkA (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:40:00 -0500 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:38:21 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki To: Marek Szyprowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Michal Nazarewicz , Kyungmin Park , Russell King , Andrew Morton , Daniel Walker , Mel Gorman , Arnd Bergmann , Jesse Barker , Jonathan Corbet , Shariq Hasnain , Chunsang Jeong , Dave Hansen , Benjamin Gaignard , Rob Clark , Ohad Ben-Cohen Subject: Re: [PATCHv21 10/16] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes Message-Id: <20120214173821.8a214716.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <1328895151-5196-11-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> References: <1328895151-5196-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1328895151-5196-11-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Organization: FUJITSU Co. LTD. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) 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 Content-Length: 940 Lines: 24 On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:32:25 +0100 Marek Szyprowski wrote: > From: Mel Gorman > > There is a race between the min_free_kbytes sysctl, memory hotplug > and transparent hugepage support enablement. Memory hotplug uses a > zonelists_mutex to avoid a race when building zonelists. Reuse it to > serialise watermark updates. > > [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Older patch fixed the race with spinlock] > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski At linux-next, conflicted with "mm: add extra free kbytes tunable" To the logic, Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki -- 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/