Re: [PATCHv2] efi/unaccepted: Fix soft lockups caused by parallel memory acceptance

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Oct 17 2023 - 06:19:48 EST


On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 09:42:13AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> One question I have is whether the sequence
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&unaccepted_memory_lock, flags);
> ...
> spin_unlock(&unaccepted_memory_lock);
> arch_accept_memory(phys_start, phys_end);
> spin_lock(&unaccepted_memory_lock);
> ...
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&unaccepted_memory_lock, flags);
>
> is considered sound and is supported by all architectures?

Yes.