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Date:   Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:40:09 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v4] mm/hotplug: silence a lockdep splat with
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On Fri 17-01-20 10:25:06, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 17.01.20 09:59, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Fri 17-01-20 09:51:05, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> On 17.01.20 03:21, Qian Cai wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> Even though has_unmovable_pages doesn't hold any reference to the
> >>> returned page this should be reasonably safe for the purpose of
> >>> reporting the page (dump_page) because it cannot be hotremoved. The
> >>
> >> This is only true in the context of memory unplug, but not in the
> >> context of is_mem_section_removable()-> is_pageblock_removable_nolock().
> > 
> > Well, the above should hold for that path as well AFAICS. If the page is
> > unmovable then a racing hotplug cannot remove it, right? Or do you
> > consider a temporary unmovability to be a problem?
> 
> Somebody could test /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable. While
> returning the unmovable page, it could become movable and
> offlining+removing could succeed.

Doesn't this path use device lock or something? If not than the new code
is not more racy then the existing one. Just look at
is_pageblock_removable_nolock and how it dereferences struct page
(page_zonenum in  page_zone.)
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs