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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] hugetlbfs: Use i_mmap_rwsem to fix page fault/truncate race
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:10:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181218141053.e2725111ce5cc91493efab5f@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbc4abb9-aa7b-6515-0f37-23a77b50ff6e@oracle.com>

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:17:52 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:

> ...
>
> > As you suggested in a comment to the subsequent patch, it would be better to
> > combine the patches and remove the dead code when it becomes dead.  I will
> > work on that.  Actually some of the code in patch 3 applies to patch 1 and
> > some applies to patch 2.  So, it will not be simply combining patch 2 and 3.
> 
> On second thought, the cleanups in patch 3 only apply to patch 2.  So, just
> combining those two patches with a slightly updated commit message as below
> makes the most sense.

All confused.  I dropped the current version, let's try again.

This:

> Hoping to get more comments on the overall direction and locking changes
> of this and the previous patch.

and this:

> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Fixes: ebed4bfc8da8 ("hugetlb: fix absurd HugePages_Rsvd")

make for a hot combination.  Could people please prioritize review of
this code?

Perhaps a refresh and resend is in order.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-18 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-03 20:08 [PATCH 0/3] hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for better synchronization Mike Kravetz
2018-12-03 20:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization Mike Kravetz
2018-12-03 20:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] hugetlbfs: Use i_mmap_rwsem to fix page fault/truncate race Mike Kravetz
2018-12-17 10:25   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2018-12-17 18:42     ` Mike Kravetz
2018-12-18  0:17       ` Mike Kravetz
2018-12-18 22:10         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-12-18 22:34           ` Mike Kravetz
     [not found]   ` <20190614215632.BF5F721473@mail.kernel.org>
2019-06-14 23:33     ` Mike Kravetz
2019-06-15 22:38       ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-03 20:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] hugetlbfs: remove unnecessary code after i_mmap_rwsem synchronization Mike Kravetz
2018-12-17 10:34   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2018-12-14 21:22 ` [PATCH 0/3] hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for better synchronization Andrew Morton

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