Re: [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore

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On Thu 31-03-16 11:20:05, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed 30-03-16 15:32:17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 01:58:14PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > I have tested on x86 with OOM situations with high mmap_sem contention
> > > > (basically many parallel page faults racing with many parallel mmap/munmap
> > > > tight loops) so the waiters for the write locks are routinely interrupted
> > > > by SIGKILL.
> > > 
> > > Aside from the one niggle (as per the other email) they look good to me
> > > and I would take them through the tip/locking tree.
> > 
> > Thanks for the review! I understand that tip/locking would be the most 
> > appropriate place [...]
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > [...] but I am wondering whether this causes some issues with the follow up 
> > patches which use this new API and which I expect to go via Andrew's tree.
> 
> So AFAIK Andrew's tree is based on top of linux-next, so once it goes into 
> tip:locking/core, -mm can pick it up as well 1-2 days later.

OK. Andrew, just make sure you send the follow up changes to Linus after
tip/locking is merged.

> Please send the changes in isolation, for merge into the locking tree.

Yes, that's what I plan to do in few days.

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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