Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:11:11 -0500 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 |
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Hello, Frederic.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:44:46PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > I fear that enumerating and fix the existing issues won't be enough. > We can't find all the code sites out there which rely on not being > faulted.
Oh, sure but that can take some time so adding documentation in the mean time probably isn't a bad idea.
> The best would be to fix that from the percpu allocator itself, or > vmalloc.
I don't think there's much percpu allocator itself can do. The ability to grow dynamically comes from being able to allocate relatively consistent layout among areas for different CPUs and pretty much requires vmalloc area and it'd generally be a good idea to take out the vmalloc fault anyway.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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