On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 06:14:28PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> I was able to address this issue by switching cpa_lock to a mutex.
> However, this solution will only work if the callers for set_memory
> interfaces are not called from an atomic context. I need to verify if
> this is the case.
Dunno, I'd be nervous about this. Althouth from looking at
ad5ca55f6bdb ("x86, cpa: srlz cpa(), global flush tlb after splitting big page and before doing cpa")
I don't see how "So that we don't allow any other cpu" can't be done
with a mutex. Perhaps the set_memory* interfaces should be usable in as
many contexts as possible.
Have you run this with lockdep enabled?
> - The function __flush_tlb_all() in kernel_(un)map_pages_in_pgd() must be
> called with preemption disabled. Once again, I am unsure why this has
> not caused issues in the EFI case.
It could be because EFI does all that setup on the BSP only before the
others have arrived but I don't remember anymore... It is more than
a decade ago when I did this...
Thx.
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