Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:44:47 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/14] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes |
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:12:07 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> There is a race between the min_free_kbytes sysctl, memory hotplug > and transparent hugepage support enablement. Memory hotplug uses a > zonelists_mutex to avoid a race when building zonelists. Reuse it to > serialise watermark updates.
This patch appears to be a standalone fix, unrelated to the overall patch series?
How does one trigger the race and what happens when it hits, btw?
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