Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm/hwpoison: remove race consideration

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Tue Oct 26 2021 - 21:18:24 EST


On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 06:04:13PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:06 PM Naoya Horiguchi
> <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Now memory_failure() and unpoison_memory() are protected by mf_mutex,
> > so no need to explicitly check races between them. So remove them.
>
> It seems this patch could be folded into patch #1. Some "unlock_mutex"
> were added by patch #1 then they were removed by this patch
> immediately, it seems a bit of a waste and this patch is actually the
> by-product of patch #1.

OK, I'll do this in the next post.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi