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Message-ID: <50DA7357.109@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:47:35 +0900
From:	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rientjes@...gle.com, liuj97@...il.com,
	len.brown@...el.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 07/14] memory-hotplug: move pgdat_resize_lock into
 sparse_remove_one_section()

(2012/12/24 21:09), Tang Chen wrote:
> In __remove_section(), we locked pgdat_resize_lock when calling
> sparse_remove_one_section(). This lock will disable irq. But we don't need
> to lock the whole function. If we do some work to free pagetables in
> free_section_usemap(), we need to call flush_tlb_all(), which need
> irq enabled. Otherwise the WARN_ON_ONCE() in smp_call_function_many()
> will be triggered.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>

If this is a bug fix, call-trace in your log and BUGFIX or -fix- in patch title
will be appreciated, I think.

Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>


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