Re: [PATCH 1/6] lockdep: allow to disable reclaim lockup detection

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Feb 06 2017 - 10:30:50 EST


On Mon 06-02-17 07:24:00, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 03:34:50PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > This part is not needed for the patch, strictly speaking but I wanted to
> > make the code more future proof.
>
> Understood. I took an extra bit myself for marking the radix tree as
> being used for an IDR (so the radix tree now uses 4 bits). I see you
> already split out the address space GFP mask from the other flags :-)
> I would prefer not to do that with the radix tree, but I understand
> your desire for more GFP bits. I'm not entirely sure that an implicit
> gfpmask makes a lot of sense for the radix tree, but it'd be a big effort
> to change all the callers. Anyway, I'm going to update your line here
> for my current tree and add the build bug so we'll know if we ever hit
> any problems.

OK, do I get it right that the patch can stay as is and go to Andrew?
I would really like to not rebase the patch again for something that is
not merged yet. I really hope for getting this merged finally...

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs