Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/memory-failure: keep the folio, not the poisoned subpage, locked across split

[Kiryl Shutsemau]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 11:44:39AM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
> There is an alternative, only igrab() when @lock_at is at or beyond the EOF,
> as I was bouncing ideas with Codex.

I saw this option too, but I wound rather not go this path.

iput() still can lead to inode eviction an bunch of random filesystem
complexity under us. I don't think we want to think about other
fs-related locking issues in split context.

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  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov