On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 23:43:17 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:10:30 PM KY Srinivasan wrote: > > [cut] yay! > > > > > > > > > > > > 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? OK, I'll wake up and take a look. Hopefully as 3.21 material but I need to to back and reread everything. Is it more urgent than that? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>