Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:50:48 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/16] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 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 <mgorman@suse.de> > Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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