From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm->rss is modified without page_table_lock held
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:58:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012082058.MAA11302@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012081534290.11892-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca> (message from Mark Hahn on Fri, 8 Dec 2000 15:36:35 -0500 (EST))
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012081534290.11892-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 15:36:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
can't we just change rss to count pages?
This is what it does now.
or are we worried about rss's over ~16 TB?
If we weren't, we could just use an atomic_t for this problem.
We can't.
This patch is the only currently available solution to this problem
which is in any way acceptable.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-08 20:29 Rasmus Andersen
2000-12-08 20:36 ` Mark Hahn
2000-12-08 20:58 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2000-12-09 10:25 ` Roberto Fichera
2000-12-09 12:32 ` David S. Miller
2000-12-09 12:43 ` Rasmus Andersen
2000-12-09 14:42 ` David S. Miller
2000-12-09 22:38 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-12-09 14:48 ` Roberto Fichera
2000-12-09 15:00 ` David S. Miller
2000-12-09 15:07 ` Roberto Fichera
2000-12-09 18:11 ` Roberto Fichera
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