Re: Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] mm/memory-failure: disable unpoison once hw error happens

[Oscar Salvador]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 01:18:23PM +0800, zhenwei pi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Because memory_failure() may be called by hardware error randomly,
> hw_memory_failure should be protected by mf_mutex to avoid this case:
> int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
> {
>     ...
>     if (hw_memory_failure) {
>     }
>     ... --> memory_failure() happens, and mark hw_memory_failure as true
>     mutex_lock(&mf_mutex);

Yeah, I am aware of that.
But once memory_failure() sets hw_memory_failure to true, it does not really matter
whether unpoison_memory() checks that while holding or not the lock, does it?

Note that it does not really matter in the end, but I am just curious whether
there is any strong impediment to that. 


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Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs