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Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:25:37 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Defer ZONE_DEVICE page initialization to the
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 01:09:26PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > So there were a few things I wasn't sure we could pull outside of the
> > hotplug lock. One specific example is the bits related to resizing the pgdat
> > and zone. I wanted to avoid pulling those bits outside of the hotplug lock.
> 
> Why would that be a problem. There are dedicated locks for resizing.

True is that move_pfn_range_to_zone() manages the locks for pgdat/zone resizing,
but it also takes care of calling init_currently_empty_zone() in case the zone is empty.
Could not that be a problem if we take move_pfn_range_to_zone() out of the lock?

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Oscar Salvador
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