Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: silence soft lockups from unlock_page

From: Qian Cai
Date: Tue Jul 21 2020 - 07:44:11 EST




> On Jul 21, 2020, at 7:25 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Are these really important? I believe I can dig that out from the bug
> report but I didn't really consider that important enough.

Please dig them out. We have also been running those things on âlargeâ powerpc as well and never saw such soft-lockups. Those details may give us some clues about the actual problem. Once we understand the problem better, we may judge if this âhackâ is really worth it.