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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/16] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes
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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