Re: [PATCH 01/16] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Mel Gorman 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.
> 
> [a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx: Older patch fixed the race with spinlock]
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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