On 03/25, Christopher Lameter wrote:
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> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> > Only for SLAB and SLUB. SLOB requires that you pass a pointer to the
> > slab cache; it has no way to look up the slab cache from the object.
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> Well then we could either fix SLOB to conform to the others or
Sorry, I am sick and can't work, hopefully I'll return tomorrow.
On 03/22, Christopher Lameter wrote:
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> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Waiman Long wrote:
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> > I am looking forward to it.
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> There is also alrady rcu being used in these paths. kfree_rcu() would not
> be enough? It is an estalished mechani
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Options:
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> 1. Dispense with this optimisation and always store the size of the
> object before the object.
I think thats how SLOB handled it at some point in the past. Lets go back
to that setup so its compatible with the other allocators?
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 02:15:25PM +, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 07:39:31PM +, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Waiman Long wrote:
> > >
> > > > >
> > > > >> I am looking forward to it.
> > > >
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 07:39:31PM +, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Waiman Long wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > >> I am looking forward to it.
> > > > There is also alrady rcu being used in these paths. kfree_rcu() would
> > > > not
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 07:39:31PM +, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Waiman Long wrote:
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> > >
> > >> I am looking forward to it.
> > > There is also alrady rcu being used in these paths. kfree_rcu() would not
> > > be enough? It is an estalished mechanism that is mature an
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Waiman Long wrote:
> >
> >> I am looking forward to it.
> > There is also alrady rcu being used in these paths. kfree_rcu() would not
> > be enough? It is an estalished mechanism that is mature and well
> > understood.
> >
> In this case, the memory objects are from kmem cache
On 03/22/2019 01:50 PM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Waiman Long wrote:
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>> I am looking forward to it.
> There is also alrady rcu being used in these paths. kfree_rcu() would not
> be enough? It is an estalished mechanism that is mature and well
> understood.
>
In this case,
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Waiman Long wrote:
> I am looking forward to it.
There is also alrady rcu being used in these paths. kfree_rcu() would not
be enough? It is an estalished mechanism that is mature and well
understood.
On 03/22/2019 07:16 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 03/21, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 05:45:10PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
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>>> To avoid this dire condition and reduce lock hold time of tasklist_lock,
>>> flush_sigqueue() is modified to pass in a freeing queue pointer so that
On 03/21, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 05:45:10PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
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> > To avoid this dire condition and reduce lock hold time of tasklist_lock,
> > flush_sigqueue() is modified to pass in a freeing queue pointer so that
> > the actual freeing of memory objects can be
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 05:45:10PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> It was found that if a process had many pending signals (e.g. millions),
> the act of exiting that process might cause its parent to have a hard
> lockup especially on a debug kernel with features like KASAN enabled.
> It was because th
It was found that if a process had many pending signals (e.g. millions),
the act of exiting that process might cause its parent to have a hard
lockup especially on a debug kernel with features like KASAN enabled.
It was because the flush_sigqueue() was called in release_task() with
tasklist_lock he
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