From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
mhocko@suse.cz
Subject: Re: mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failure due to 'mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary soft limit tree node test'
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:02:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150123160204.GA32592@phnom.home.cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1501230908560.15325@gentwo.org>
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:17:44AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>
> > Is the assumption of this patch wrong? Does the specified node have
> > to be online for the fallback to work?
>
> Nodes that are offline have no control structures allocated and thus
> allocations will likely segfault when the address of the controls
> structure for the node is accessed.
>
> If we wanted to prevent that then every allocation would have to add a
> check to see if the nodes are online which would impact performance.
Okay, that makes sense, thank you.
Andrew, can you please drop this patch?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-23 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 23:05 mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04 uploaded akpm
2015-01-23 5:04 ` mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failures due to 'mm: account pmd page tables to the process' Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 11:13 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-23 15:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-24 2:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-24 3:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-24 5:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-26 12:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-26 14:03 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-26 14:17 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27 16:16 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-27 16:24 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27 21:24 ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-28 6:16 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 5:08 ` mmotm 2015-01-22-15-04: qemu failure due to 'mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary soft limit tree node test' Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 14:18 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 15:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-23 16:02 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2015-01-23 16:59 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 17:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 17:38 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-24 2:02 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-27 17:24 ` Michal Hocko
2015-01-28 15:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-23 15:46 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 16:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-23 20:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-23 20:33 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-01-23 21:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-01-24 7:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2015-01-25 21:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2015-01-26 13:37 ` Johannes Weiner
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