Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:21:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>, bhutchings@solarflare.com,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
        KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch for-3.7] mm, mempolicy: fix printing stack contents in
 numa_maps
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:24:32PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
>  > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > 
>  > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:269
>  > 
>  > Hmm, looks like we need to change the refcount semantics entirely.  We'll 
>  > need to make get_vma_policy() always take a reference and then drop it 
>  > accordingly.  This work sif get_vma_policy() can grab a reference while 
>  > holding task_lock() for the task policy fallback case.
>  > 
>  > Comments on this approach?
> 
> Seems to be surviving my testing at least..
> 

Sounds good.  Is it possible to verify that policy_cache isn't getting 
larger than normal in /proc/slabinfo, i.e. when all processes with a 
task mempolicy or shared vma policy have exited, are there still a 
significant number of active objects?
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