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Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_owner: initialize page owner without holding the zone lock

From Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_owner: initialize page owner without holding the zone lock
Date 2016-05-10 17:10 +0200
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On 05/03/2016 07:23 AM, js1304@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>
> It's not necessary to initialized page_owner with holding the zone lock.
> It would cause more contention on the zone lock although it's not
> a big problem since it is just debug feature. But, it is better
> than before so do it. This is also preparation step to use stackdepot
> in page owner feature. Stackdepot allocates new pages when there is no
> reserved space and holding the zone lock in this case will cause deadlock.

I have same concerns here as for Patch 1/6.

Thanks.

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[PATCH 0/6] mm/page_owner: use tackdepot to store stacktrace js1304@gmail.com - 2016-05-03 07:30 +0200
  [PATCH 5/6] tools/vm/page_owner: increase temporary buffer size js1304@gmail.com - 2016-05-03 07:30 +0200
  [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace js1304@gmail.com - 2016-05-03 07:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-03 11:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-05-04 04:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-05-04 04:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-04 11:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 17:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-04 11:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 17:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 17:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-04 21:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-04 21:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 09:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-10 11:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm/page_owner: use stackdepot to store stacktrace Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-12 14:00 +0200
  [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_owner: copy last_migrate_reason in copy_page_owner() js1304@gmail.com - 2016-05-03 07:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_owner: copy last_migrate_reason in  copy_page_owner() Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-10 17:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_owner: copy last_migrate_reason in  copy_page_owner() Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-05-12 05:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm/page_owner: copy last_migrate_reason in  copy_page_owner() Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-12 08:50 +0200
  [PATCH 4/6] mm/page_owner: introduce split_page_owner and replace manual handling js1304@gmail.com - 2016-05-03 07:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 4/6] mm/page_owner: introduce split_page_owner and replace  manual handling Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-10 17:20 +0200
  [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_owner: initialize page owner without holding the zone lock js1304@gmail.com - 2016-05-03 07:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_owner: initialize page owner without holding  the zone lock Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-10 17:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/6] mm/compaction: split freepages without holding the zone lock js1304@gmail.com - 2016-05-03 07:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm/compaction: split freepages without holding the  zone lock Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-05-10 17:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm/compaction: split freepages without holding the  zone lock Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-05-12 05:00 +0200

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