Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 4 authors, 2016-04-01

Re: [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2016-03-30 13:32:24
Also in: linux-arch, linux-s390, linux-sh, lkml, sparclinux

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 01:58:14PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
I have tested on x86 with OOM situations with high mmap_sem contention
(basically many parallel page faults racing with many parallel mmap/munmap
tight loops) so the waiters for the write locks are routinely interrupted
by SIGKILL.
Aside from the one niggle (as per the other email) they look good to me
and I would take them through the tip/locking tree.

Thanks!
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