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Re: [PATCH v6] fork: free vmapped stacks in cache when cpus are offline

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On Sun, 12 Feb 2017, Hoeun Ryu wrote:

>  Using virtually mapped stack, kernel stacks are allocated via vmalloc.
> In the current implementation, two stacks per cpu can be cached when
> tasks are freed and the cached stacks are used again in task duplications.
> but the cached stacks may remain unfreed even when cpu are offline.
>  By adding a cpu hotplug callback to free the cached stacks when a cpu
> goes offline, the pages of the cached stacks are not wasted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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[PATCH v6] fork: free vmapped stacks in cache when cpus are offline Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 14:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v6] fork: free vmapped stacks in cache when cpus are  offline Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-12 16:30 +0100

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