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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] memory_hotplug: hyperv: fix deadlock between memory adding and onlining
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 23:43:17 +0100
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On Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:10:30 PM KY Srinivasan wrote:

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> > > > >
> > > > > This issue was first discovered by Andy Whitcroft:
> > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/14/451
> > > > > I had sent patches based on Andy's analysis that did not affect
> > > > > the users of the kernel hot-add memory APIs:
> > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/2/662
> > > > >
> > > > > This patch puts the burden where it needs to be and can address
> > > > > the issue
> > > > for all clients.
> > > >
> > > > That seems to mean that this series is not needed.  Is that correct?
> > >
> > > This patch was never committed upstream and so the issue still is there.
> > 
> > Well, I'm not sure what to do now to be honest.
> > 
> > Is this series regarded as the right way to address the problem that
> > everybody is comfortable with?  Or is it still under discussion?
> 
> We need to solve this problem and that is not under discussion. I also believe this problem
> needs to be solved in a way that addresses the problem where it belongs - not in the users of
> the hot_add API. Both my solution and the one proposed by David https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/12/57
> address this issue. You can select either patch and check it in. I just want the issue addressed and I am not
> married to the solution I proposed.

OK, thanks!

So having looked at both your patch and the David's one I think that
the Andrew's tree is appropriate for any of them.

Andrew?