On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 06:51:23PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Does the kernel have commit 88e8ac11d2ea3 backported? If not, and there were > memory hotplug operations happening, the infinite loop could happen. If that > commit was not backported, and instead 5c3ad2eb7104 was backported, possibly > there are more scenarios outside hotplug that can cause trouble. Yes, it appears that 5.8.18 contains the 88e8ac11d2ea3 backport (commit ID 5b21a116b1365 in linux-5.8.y). Thanks, Sultan