Re: Re: [PATCH] [PATCH] mm: disable preemption before swapcache_free

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 26-07-18 15:03:23, zhaowuyun@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >On Thu 26-07-18 10:21:40, zhaowuyun@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >[...]
> >> Our project really needs a fix to this issue
> >
> >Could you be more specific why? My understanding is that RT tasks
> >usually have all the memory mlocked otherwise all the real time
> >expectations are gone already.
> >--
> >Michal Hocko
> >SUSE Labs 
> 
> 
> The RT thread is created by a process with normal priority, and the process was sleep, 
> then some task needs the RT thread to do something, so the process create this thread, and set it to RT policy.
> I think that is the reason why RT task would read the swap.

OK I see. This design is quite fragile though. You are opening ticket to
priority inversions and what not.

Anyway, the underlying swap issue should be fixed. Unfortunatelly I do
not have a great idea how to do that properly.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs