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SubjectRe: [patch for-3.7] mm, mempolicy: fix printing stack contents in numa_maps
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:24:32PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:269
> >
> > Hmm, looks like we need to change the refcount semantics entirely. We'll
> > need to make get_vma_policy() always take a reference and then drop it
> > accordingly. This work sif get_vma_policy() can grab a reference while
> > holding task_lock() for the task policy fallback case.
> >
> > Comments on this approach?
>
> Seems to be surviving my testing at least..
>

Sounds good. Is it possible to verify that policy_cache isn't getting
larger than normal in /proc/slabinfo, i.e. when all processes with a
task mempolicy or shared vma policy have exited, are there still a
significant number of active objects?


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