On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 10:48 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> 
> While this could be fixed with heavy locking, it's only necessary to
> make a copy of the PMD on the stack during change_pmd_range and avoid
> races. A new helper is created for this as the check if quite subtle
> and the
> existing similar helpful is not suitable. This passed 154 hours of
> testing
> (usually triggers between 20 minutes and 24 hours) without detecting
> bad
> PMDs or corruption. A basic test of an autonuma-intensive workload
> showed
> no significant change in behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>

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