Re: [PATCH] mm: use in_atomic() in print_vma_addr()

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On Mon 06-11-17 13:00:25, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 11:43:54AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > Yes the comment is very much accurate.
> > 
> > Which suggests that print_vma_addr might be problematic, right?
> > Shouldn't we do trylock on mmap_sem instead?
> 
> Yes that's complete rubbish. trylock will get spurious failures to print
> when the lock is contended.

Yes, but I guess that it is acceptable to to not print the state under
that condition.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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