Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 May 2013 07:53:55 -0700 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv4 16/39] thp, mm: locking tail page is a bug |
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On 05/22/2013 07:12 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: >> On 05/11/2013 06:23 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: >>> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> >>> >>> Locking head page means locking entire compound page. >>> If we try to lock tail page, something went wrong. >> >> Have you actually triggered this in your development? > > Yes, on early prototypes.
I'd mention this in the description, and think about how necessary this is with your _current_ code.
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