RE: Arm64 crash while online/offline memory sections

From: Qian Cai (QUIC)
Date: Tue May 25 2021 - 12:40:09 EST



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> Subject: Re: Arm64 crash while online/offline memory sections
>
> On 25.05.21 17:36, Qian Cai (QUIC) wrote:
> > Reverting the patchset "Allocate memmap from hotadded memory (per
> device)" [1] from today's linux-next fixed a crash while online/offline
> memory sections.
>
> Do we know which patch in particular is problematic?

I don't know yet. It could be messy to dive into a patchset which usually has less clear boundaries, but I'll try to dig a bit more.