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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel•org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat•com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix•de>,
	Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel•org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis•org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel•org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel•org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead•org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel•org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel•org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google•com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse•com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack•org,
	linux-rt-devel@lists•linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Use GFP_ATOMIC_RT gfp flag in allocate_vpe_l1_table()
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 09:17:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861pf3x3hc.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260520204628.933654-2-longman@redhat.com>

On Wed, 20 May 2026 21:46:28 +0100,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat•com> wrote:
> 
> A longer term solution is to defer the allocation to a later stage of the
> hotplug pipeline where interrupt isn't disabled.

And that's what needs doing. Not papering over this in a bizarre way.
I proposed a potential solution a few months back, but didn't get a
chance to work on it. If you have the bandwidth, that's the way to go.

But papering over this issue this way seems like a bad case of short
term and unsustainable hack.

Thanks,

	M.

-- 
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.


  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-22  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-20 20:46 [PATCH 1/2] gfp_types: Introduce a new GFP_ATOMIC_RT gfp flag Waiman Long
2026-05-20 20:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Use GFP_ATOMIC_RT gfp flag in allocate_vpe_l1_table() Waiman Long
2026-05-22  8:17   ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2026-05-22  9:06     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-05-21 16:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] gfp_types: Introduce a new GFP_ATOMIC_RT gfp flag Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-05-21 17:40   ` Waiman Long
2026-05-22  8:46     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-05-25  8:41 ` Michal Hocko
2026-05-26  8:28   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-05-26 13:55   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-05-27  8:41     ` Michal Hocko

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