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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] drivers/base: export lock_device_hotplug/unlock_device_hotplug
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:28:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180817112850.GB3565@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ac624be-d2d6-5975-821f-b20a475781dc@redhat.com>

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 01:04:58PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> If there are no objections, I'll go into that direction. But I'll wait
> >> for more comments regarding the general concept first.
> > 
> > It is the middle of the merge window, and maintainers are really busy
> > right now.  I doubt you will get many review comments just yet...
> > 
> 
> This has been broken since 2015, so I guess it can wait a bit :)

I hope you figured out what needs to be locked why. Your patch description
seems to be "only" about locking order ;)

I tried to figure out and document that partially with 55adc1d05dca ("mm:
add private lock to serialize memory hotplug operations"), and that wasn't
easy to figure out. I was especially concerned about sprinkling
lock/unlock_device_hotplug() calls, which has the potential to make it the
next BKL thing.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-17 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-17  7:58 [PATCH RFC 0/2] mm: online/offline_pages called w.o. mem_hotplug_lock David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17  7:59 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] drivers/base: export lock_device_hotplug/unlock_device_hotplug David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17  8:41   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-17  8:56     ` David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17  9:03       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-08-17  9:41         ` David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 10:06           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-17 11:04             ` David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 11:28               ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2018-08-17 11:56                 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17 17:02                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-17  8:57     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-08-17  7:59 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] mm/memory_hotplug: fix online/offline_pages called w.o. mem_hotplug_lock David Hildenbrand
2018-08-17  8:20   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-08-17  8:27     ` David Hildenbrand

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