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The mem_sysfs_mutex isn't really helpful. Also, it's not really clear what the mutex protects at all. The device lists of the memory subsystem are protected separately. We don't need that mutex when looking up. creating, or removing independent devices. find_memory_block_by_id() will perform locking on its own and grab a reference of the returned device. At the time memory_dev_init() is called, we cannot have concurrent hot(un)plug operations yet - we're still fairly early during boot. We don't need any locking. The creation/removal of memory block devices should be protected on a higher level - especially using the device hotplug lock to avoid documented issues (see Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst) - or if that is reworked, using similar locking. Protecting in the context of these functions only doesn't really make sense. Especially, if we would have a situation where the same memory blocks are created/deleted at the same time, there is something horribly going wrong (imagining adding/removing a DIMM at the same time from two call paths) - after the functions succeeded something else in the callers would blow up (e.g., create_memory_block_devices() succeeded but there are no memory block devices anymore). All relevant call paths (except when adding memory early during boot via ACPI, which is now documented) hold the device hotplug lock when adding memory, and when removing memory. Let's document that instead. Add a simple safety net to create_memory_block_devices() in case we would actually remove memory blocks while adding them, so we'll never dereference a NULL pointer. Simplify memory_dev_init() now that the lock is gone. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190925082621.4927-1-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.