Re: [PATCH 1/4] mmzone: make holding lock_memory_hotplug() a requirementfor updating pgdat size

From: Cody P Schafer
Date: Wed May 01 2013 - 18:45:19 EST


On 05/01/2013 03:39 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2013, Cody P Schafer wrote:

They are also initialized at boot without pgdat_resize_lock(), if we consider
boot time, quite a few of the statements on when locking is required are
wrong.

That said, you are correct that it is not strictly required to hold
lock_memory_hotplug() when updating the fields in question because
pgdat_resize_lock() is used.


I think you've confused node size fields with zone size fields.


Where? I'm afraid I don't see where I'm mixing them.


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