Messages in this thread | | | From | Pavel Tatashin <> | Date | Wed, 1 Apr 2020 12:51:56 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] mm: fix tick timer stall during deferred page init |
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> > I do not remember seeing any real failures, this was a theoretical > > window. So, we could potentially simply remove these locks until we > > see a real boot failure in some interrupt thread. The allocation has > > to be rather large as well. > > Yes please! We are really great at over complicating and over > engineering stuff based on theoretical issues and build on top of that > and make the code even more complex because nobody dares to re-evaluate > and so on.
I will submit a patch (or revert) whichever is cleaner.
Pasha
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