On 2015/3/4 10:22, Xishi Qiu wrote: > On 2015/3/3 18:20, Gu Zheng wrote: > >> Hi Xishi, >> On 03/03/2015 11:30 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote: >> >>> When hot-remove a numa node, we will clear pgdat, >>> but is memset 0 safe in try_offline_node()? >> >> It is not safe here. In fact, this is a temporary solution here. >> As you know, pgdat is accessed lock-less now, so protection >> mechanism (RCU？) is needed to make it completely safe here, >> but it seems a bit over-kill. >>
Hi Gu, Can we just remove "memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat));" ? I find this will be fine in the stress test except the warning when hot-add memory. Thanks, Xishi Qiu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
