linux-kernel - Re: scheduling while atomic in z3fold

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Date:   Mon, 7 Dec 2020 16:41:42 +0100
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@...sulko.com>
Cc:     Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scheduling while atomic in z3fold

On 2020-12-07 16:21:20 [+0100], Vitaly Wool wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 1:34 PM Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, that made zero difference.
> 
> Okay, I suggest that you submit the patch that changes read_lock() to
> write_lock() in __release_z3fold_page() and I'll ack it then.
> I would like to rewrite the code so that write_lock is not necessary
> there but I don't want to hold you back and it isn't likely that I'll
> complete this today.

Please with a

   Fixes: 4a3ac9311dac3 ("mm/z3fold.c: add inter-page compaction")

tag.

> Best regards,
>    Vitaly

Sebastian