linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] hugetlb: make free_huge

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Message-ID: <20210407093844.GB11066@linux>
Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 11:38:44 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] hugetlb: make free_huge_page irq safe

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 11:33:18AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Yes. spin_unlock_irq will enable interrupts unconditionally which is
> certainly not what we want if the path is called with IRQ disabled by
> the caller.

I see, thanks for confirming.

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3