Re: [PATCH v8 3/7] mm, devm_memremap_pages: Fix shutdown handling

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 2:19 PM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> On 2018-11-29 11:51 a.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> > Got it, let me see how bad moving arch_remove_memory() turns out,
> > sounds like a decent approach to coordinate multiple users of a single
> > ref.
>
> I've put together a patch set[1] that fixes all the users of
> devm_memremap_pages() without moving arch_remove_memory(). It's pretty
> clean except for the p2pdma case which is fairly tricky but I don't
> think there's an easy way around that.

The solution I'm trying is to introduce a devm_memremap_pages_remove()
that each user can call after they have called percpu_ref_exit(), it's
just crashing for me currently...

> If you come up with a better solution that's great, otherwise let me
> know and I'll do some clean up and more testing and send this set to the
> lists. Though, we might need to wait for your patch to land before we
> can properly send the fix to it (the first patch in my series)...

I'd say go ahead and send it. We can fix p2pdma as a follow-on. Send
it to Andrew as a patch relative to the current -next tree.