On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > I know a patchset which solves this! ;) > > Oh, and I know a patchset which avoids these problems completely, > by not using compound pages at all ;)
Another dumb idea: Stop the insanity of splitting pages on the fly? Splitting pages should work like page migration: Lock everything down and ensure no one is using the page and then do it. That way the compound pages and its metadata are as stable as a regular page. -- 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/
