Re: [PATCH v6 09/10] dax/kmem: add sysfs interface for atomic whole-device hotplug
From: Gregory Price
Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 18:16:06 EST
On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 05:18:41PM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> There is no atomic mechanism to offline and remove an entire
> multi-block DAX kmem device. This is presently done in two steps:
... snip snip snip ...
Sashiko pointed out a false-positive, but adding a fixup patch
here that adds additional consistency.
On total failure - release all resources. This makes the sysfs
interface consistent with the probe failure path.
Just attaching a fixup here, since technically it's not a bug,
could fold in separately
~Gregory