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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] release quicklist before free_page
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:23:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070723182301.GA27789@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185207979.2573.55.camel@imap.mvista.com>


* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:

> > Not quite, it uses preempt_disable() to avoid migration and stick to 
> > a cpu. Without that it might end up freeing pages from another 
> > quicklist.

i.e. the patch hides a debug warning and there's possibly silent data 
corruption - not good.

> > How about this - compile tested only
> 
> How about a comment to go with it ?  Which says something like what's 
> above, notes on how the locking is getting used..

how about: "if you've got some time then please also add a few comments, 
because the code was quite non-obvious to me and I misunderstood it when 
I tried to fix it. Thanks."

ok?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-23 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-23 15:21 Daniel Walker
2007-07-23 16:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-07-23 16:26   ` Daniel Walker
2007-07-23 18:23     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-23 18:27       ` Daniel Walker
2007-07-23 18:58         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-23 19:46           ` Daniel Walker

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