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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kexec: change locking mechanism to a mutex
On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:59:38 -0400 Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com> wrote:

> Scaled up testing has revealed that the kexec_trylock()
> implementation leads to failures within the crash hotplug
> infrastructure due to the inability to acquire the lock,
> specifically the message:
>
> ...
>
> Convert the atomic lock to a mutex.
>

Do you think this problem is serious enough to warrant a backport into
-stable kernels?

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