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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"David Hildenbrand" <david@kernel.org>,
	"Lorenzo Stoakes" <ljs@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	"Mike Rapoport" <rppt@kernel.org>,
	"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
	"Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	"Clark Williams" <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
	"Simona Vetter" <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	"Sean Christopherson" <seanjc@google.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mmu_notifier: Remove non_block_start/end() from notifier invocation
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:14:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <anwraNIKJV8zwrNT@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37b83b429b9f14ea6ad4ca1c13cc8e565ec09033.camel@infradead.org>

On Tue 11-08-26 16:24:48, David Woodhouse wrote:
[...]
> I had a second reason for disabling the overzealous check too: to allow
> SRCU grace periods within the notifier callbacks.

Is there a way that srcu barrier could cause an indirect dependency on
memory allocation? In other words what might block the scru to complete?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-12  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-11  8:58 [PATCH] mm/mmu_notifier: Remove non_block_start/end() from notifier invocation David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 13:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-11 14:21   ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 14:27     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-11 14:33       ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 14:42         ` Steven Rostedt
2026-08-11 15:24           ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 15:30             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-12  8:14             ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2026-08-12  8:21               ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-12  8:13           ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-11 15:29         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-11 15:15       ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 15:24         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-11 15:29           ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 16:24             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-11 17:22               ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 17:26                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-11 17:59                   ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 18:19                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-11 20:06                       ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-11 20:21                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2026-08-11 21:14                           ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 22:58                             ` Sean Christopherson
2026-08-11 23:50                               ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-12 10:25                                 ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 20:29                         ` David Woodhouse
2026-08-11 15:12 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)

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