Re: [PATCH] memory-hotplug: fix zone stat mismatch

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> During memory-hotplug stress test, I found NR_ISOLATED_[ANON|FILE]
> are increasing so that kernel are hang out.
>
> The cause is that when we do memory-hotadd after memory-remove,
> __zone_pcp_update clear out zone's ZONE_STAT_ITEMS in setup_pageset
> without draining vm_stat_diff of all CPU.
>
> This patch fixes it.

zone_pcp_update() is called from online pages path. but IMHO,
the statistics should be drained offline path. isn't it?

thanks.

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>


[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [ECOS]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]