[PATCH v3] Crash: add lock to serialize crash hotplug handling

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Sep 26 13:50:01 PDT 2023


On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:09:05 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> wrote:

> Eric reported that handling corresponding crash hotplug event can be
> failed easily when many memory hotplug event are notified in a short
> period. They failed because failing to take __kexec_lock.

I'm assuming that this failure is sufficiently likely so as to  justify a -stable
backport of the fix.   Please let me know if this is incorrect.



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