Re: [PATCH] ACPI: OSL: Prevent acpi_release_memory() from returning too early

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Mon Aug 24 2020 - 10:06:44 EST


On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 07:42:55PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> After commit 1757659d022b ("ACPI: OSL: Implement deferred unmapping
> of ACPI memory") in some cases acpi_release_memory() may return
> before the target memory mappings actually go away, because they
> are released asynchronously now.
>
> Prevent it from returning prematurely by making it wait for the next
> RCU grace period to elapse, for all of the RCU callbacks to complete
> and for all of the scheduled work items to be flushed before
> returning.
>
> Fixes: 1757659d022b ("ACPI: OSL: Implement deferred unmapping of ACPI memory")
> Reported-by: Kenneth R. Crudup <kenny@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>