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

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jul 23 2020 - 15:03:27 EST


On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:22 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> So I think that is a separate issue, generic to our finish_wait() uses.

IOW, I think we should do something like this (this is on top of my
patch, since it has that wake_page_function() change in it, but notice
how we have the exact same issue in our traditional
autoremove_wake_function() usage).

Comments?

Linus

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