Re: [PATCH] percpu: Sync vmalloc mappings in pcpu_alloc() and free_percpu()

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Mon May 04 2020 - 11:51:35 EST


On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 11:38:43AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On May 4, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Joerg Roedel jroedel@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Tried this before, actually I put it into the caller of
> > pcpu_mem_zalloc(), but that didn't fix the problem for me. Stevens
> > test-case still hangs the machine.
>
> That's unexpected.
>
> Did you confirm that those hangs were also caused by percpu allocations ?

No, I didn't dig deeper on that hang. I can probably do tomorrow.


Regards,

Joerg