Re: Memory hotplug softlock issue

[Baoquan He]

On 11/19/18 at 09:59pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 19-11-18 12:34:09, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > I'm glad that I delayed, what I had then (migration_waitqueue instead
> > of using page_waitqueue) was not wrong, but what I've been using the
> > last couple of months is rather better (and can be put to use to solve
> > similar problems in collapsing pages on huge tmpfs. but we don't need
> > to get into that at this time): put_and_wait_on_page_locked().
> > 
> > What I have not yet done is verify it on latest kernel, and research
> > the interested Cc list (Linus and Tim Chen come immediately to mind),
> > and write the commit comment. I have some testing to do on the latest
> > kernel today, so I'll throw put_and_wait_on_page_locked() in too,
> > and post tomorrow I hope.
> 
> Cool, it seems that Baoquan has a reliable test case to trigger the
> pathological case.

Yes. I will test Hugh's patch.