Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: silence soft lockups from unlock_page

[Qian Cai]

> On Jul 21, 2020, at 7:25 AM, Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> Are these really important? I believe I can dig that out from the bug
> report but I didn't really consider that important enough.

Please dig them out. We have also been running those things on “large” powerpc 
as well and never saw such soft-lockups. Those details may give us some clues 
about the actual problem. Once we understand the problem better, we may judge 
if this “hack” is really worth it.