Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] mm/memory_hotplug: make add_memory() take the device_hotplug_lock

2018-09-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:48 PM David Hildenbrand wrote: > > add_memory() currently does not take the device_hotplug_lock, however > is aleady called under the lock from > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c > drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c > to synchronize against CPU

[PATCH v1 2/6] mm/memory_hotplug: make add_memory() take the device_hotplug_lock

2018-09-18 Thread David Hildenbrand
add_memory() currently does not take the device_hotplug_lock, however is aleady called under the lock from arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c to synchronize against CPU hot-remove and similar. In general, we should hold the device_hotplug