On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 09:11:06AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, please see below > for an untested patch that illustrates how I was interpreting your words. > Was this what you had in mind? No, definitely not. Also, since we used to be able to use call_rcu() _everywhere_, including under zone->lock, how's that working with you calling the page-allocating from it?