From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: "Gregory Price (Meta)" <gourry@gourry.net>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@meta.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
vbabka@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com,
brendan.jackman@linux.dev, hannes@cmpxchg.org, ziy@nvidia.com,
linmiaohe@huawei.com, nao.horiguchi@gmail.com, ljs@kernel.org,
liam@infradead.org, rppt@kernel.org, osalvador@suse.de,
muchun.song@linux.dev, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com,
anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: fix pfn walker races with memory offline
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:57:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01d7d54d-0047-4eb6-a1d2-5b3f113f26cf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261027042204.3741307-1-gourry@gourry.net>
On 10/27/26 05:21, Gregory Price (Meta) wrote:
> Several pfn walkers check that a struct page is online, then use it
> after memory offline has poisoned it (CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) or removal has
> freed the vmemmap. Five of the races crash the kernel; the sixth leaves
> an offline spinning with the device hotplug lock held.
I have roughly the exact same list of AI garbage fixes here from a certain company.
And I consider this all extremely low priority.
So this is something to discuss throughout the next months and do it properly.
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-27 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-27 4:21 [PATCH 0/6] mm: fix pfn walker races with memory offline Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 4:21 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/compaction: wait for pfn walkers before poisoning offlined memmap Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 13:38 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 4:22 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-27 4:22 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm/page_owner: hold off memory offline while a page is read Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-28 4:22 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-27 4:22 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm/memory-failure: keep the page online while handling it Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 4:22 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm/page_alloc: don't undo another isolation in alloc_contig_range Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 13:37 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 14:06 ` Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 14:13 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 18:53 ` Zi Yan
2026-10-27 18:58 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 19:38 ` Gregory Price
2026-10-27 4:22 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc: keep the range online while alloc_contig isolates it Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 4:22 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm/hwpoison-inject: keep the page online while filtering it Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 8:57 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-10-27 11:31 ` [PATCH 0/6] mm: fix pfn walker races with memory offline Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 12:51 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 13:49 ` Gregory Price (Meta)
2026-10-27 14:25 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-27 15:49 ` Gregory Price (Meta)
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