linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: APEI: do not add task_work to kernel thread to avoid memory leak

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2022 21:23:30 +0800
From:   Shuai Xue <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:     Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        "linmiaohe@...wei.com" <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "cuibixuan@...ux.alibaba.com" <cuibixuan@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com" <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "zhuo.song@...ux.alibaba.com" <zhuo.song@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: APEI: do not add task_work to kernel thread to
 avoid memory leak



在 2022/10/14 AM1:18, Luck, Tony 写道:
>> Thank you for your review, but I am still having problems with this question.
>>
>> Do you have any interest to extend ras-tools to Arm platform? I forked a arm-devel branch[1]
>> from your repo:
>>
>> - port X86 arch specific cases to Arm platform
>> - add some common cases like hugetlb, thread and Arm specific cases like prefetch, strb, etc, which
>>   are helpful to test hardware and firmware RAS problems we encountered.
>>
>> I am pleasure to contribute these code to your upstream repo and looking forward to see a more
>> powerful and cross platform tools to inject and debug RAS ability on both X86 and Arm platform.
>>
>> I really appreciate your great work, and look forward to your reply. Thank you.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Shuai
>>
>>> [1] https://gitee.com/anolis/ras-tools/tree/arm-devel
> 
> Shaui,
> 
> Sorry I didn't follow up on this part.  Yes, I'm happy to take your (excellent) changes.
> 
> I did a "git fetch" from your repo and the a "git merge" of all except the README and LICENSE
> commits at the tip of your repo. Those I manually cherry-picked (since the last section of your
> README said "clone of Tony's repo" ... which makes no sense in my repo).
> 
> Resulting tree has been pushed out to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/ras-tools.git

Thank you. I am glad to see it really happens :)

> 
> Please check that I didn't break anything.
> 
> -Tony

I recheck it and all look good except hornet.

hornet use PTRACE_GETREGS to read the tracee's general-purpose registers, but it does not work
on Arm. I will send a new patch to extend it into Arm platform.

Cheers,
Shuai