On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 05:13:32PM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Fixes: 108d6642ad81 ("mm anon rmap: remove anon_vma_moveto_tail")
>>
>> I think 108d6642ad81 on its own was OK (as it always took the locks);
>> but the attempt to not take them in the common case in 38a76013ad80 is
>> where I forgot to consider the THP case.
>
> 108d6642ad81 replaced the chain ordering with an explicit lock, but I
> see the unconditional locking only in move_ptes(), which isn't called
> for THP pmds.
Ah yes, you are right.
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Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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