From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
Ying Huang <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>,
Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>,
Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
driver-core@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Rafael J Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers/base/memory: fix locking for poison accounting lookup
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:50:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260430085058.f566bdc2aa5c19a54936da30@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2C5188E-76BF-444C-BF2D-8BDC1410BC61@linux.dev>
On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:59:33 +0800 Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> wrote:
> >> Lockdep would flag this as sleeping while atomic when acquiring mutex I think.
> >
> > Another thought would be, that we always call the inc/sub from memory failure
> > code while we hold a folio reference and the page is not poisoned yet.
> >
> > That way, memory offlining cannot continue and the memory block cannot go away.
> >
> > So we'd let out page reference keep the memory block alive.
>
> It seems unnecessary to hold lock_device_hotplug if the user already holds a
> refcount on the page. I'd like to drop this patch.
Dropped, thanks.
mm-hotfixes-unstable still has
"mm/memory_hotplug: fix memory block reference leak on remove"
and
"drivers/base/memory: fix memory block reference leak in poison accounting"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-30 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-28 13:52 [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers/base/memory: fix locking for poison accounting lookup Muchun Song
2026-04-29 3:08 ` Miaohe Lin
2026-04-29 3:32 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-04-29 4:18 ` Muchun Song
2026-04-29 10:11 ` Usama Arif
2026-04-29 10:44 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-30 7:59 ` Muchun Song
2026-04-30 15:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-04-28 8:52 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm: Fix memory block leaks and locking Muchun Song
2026-04-28 8:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers/base/memory: fix locking for poison accounting lookup Muchun Song
2026-04-28 9:17 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-04-28 9:21 ` Muchun Song
2026-04-28 11:37 ` Miaohe Lin
2026-04-28 11:40 ` Muchun Song
2026-04-28 12:34 ` Miaohe Lin
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