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From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
	Nghia Le <nghialm78@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] hugetlb: add demote hugetlb page sysfs interfaces
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 09:51:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YV/4ZFCvoGRn2rtr@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211007181918.136982-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com>

On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 11:19:14AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> +static ssize_t demote_store(struct kobject *kobj,
> +	       struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t len)
> +{
> +	unsigned long nr_demote;
> +	unsigned long nr_available;
> +	nodemask_t nodes_allowed, *n_mask;
> +	struct hstate *h;
> +	int err = 0;
> +	int nid;
> +
> +	err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &nr_demote);
> +	if (err)
> +		return err;
> +	h = kobj_to_hstate(kobj, &nid);
> +
> +	/* Synchronize with other sysfs operations modifying huge pages */
> +	mutex_lock(&h->resize_lock);
> +
> +	if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
> +		init_nodemask_of_node(&nodes_allowed, nid);
> +		n_mask = &nodes_allowed;
> +	} else {
> +		n_mask = &node_states[N_MEMORY];
> +	}

Why this needs to be protected by the resize_lock? I do not understand
what are we really protecting here and from what.

Besides that, I did not spot anything wrong.

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-08  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-07 18:19 [PATCH v4 0/5] hugetlb: add demote/split page functionality Mike Kravetz
2021-10-07 18:19 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] hugetlb: add demote hugetlb page sysfs interfaces Mike Kravetz
2021-10-08  7:51   ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2021-10-08 20:24     ` Mike Kravetz
2021-10-18  7:35       ` Oscar Salvador
2021-10-22 18:58         ` Mike Kravetz
2021-10-25  7:24           ` Oscar Salvador
2021-10-07 18:19 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] mm/cma: add cma_pages_valid to determine if pages are in CMA Mike Kravetz
2021-10-08  7:53   ` Oscar Salvador
2021-10-08  7:55     ` Oscar Salvador
2021-10-07 18:19 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] hugetlb: be sure to free demoted CMA pages to CMA Mike Kravetz
2021-10-07 18:19 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] hugetlb: add demote bool to gigantic page routines Mike Kravetz
2021-10-18  7:58   ` Oscar Salvador
2021-10-22 19:05     ` Mike Kravetz
2021-10-25  7:23       ` Oscar Salvador
2021-10-07 18:19 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] hugetlb: add hugetlb demote page support Mike Kravetz
2021-10-08 20:57   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-10-18  8:06     ` Oscar Salvador

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