Re: [PATCH] mm, hotplug: protect nr_zones with pgdat_resize_lock()

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On Mon 26-11-18 10:28:40, Wei Yang wrote:
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> But I get some difficulty to understand this TODO. You want to get rid of
> these lock? While these locks seem necessary to protect those data of
> pgdat/zone. Would you mind sharing more on this statement?

Why do we need this lock to be irqsave? Is there any caller that uses
the lock from the IRQ context?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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