Re: [PATCH] mm/mmu_notifier: Remove non_block_start/end() from notifier invocation

From: David Woodhouse

Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 11:16:35 EST


On Tue, 2026-08-11 at 11:27 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> The unstated secondary purprose of the atomic context is to force the
> driver implementors to make sane choices that don't degrade the MM
> spectacularly.

You realise it only does this is in the OOM handler context when the
normal death of the process takes too long, and I literally had to hack
the kernel to even get the splat to trigger in the first place, right?

I don't think it's keeping your driver authors honest... :)

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