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

From: David Woodhouse

Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 04:26:22 EST


On Wed, 2026-08-12 at 10:14 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 11-08-26 16:24:48, David Woodhouse wrote:
> [...]
> > I had a second reason for disabling the overzealous check too: to allow
> > SRCU grace periods within the notifier callbacks.
>
> Is there a way that srcu barrier could cause an indirect dependency on
> memory allocation? In other words what might block the scru to complete?

Not after https://lore.kernel.org/all/6eed3fe3461e9690b486ca98fa7563f60d3940ff.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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