On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 4:34 PM Alexander Duyck
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In the earlier patch "mm: defer ZONE_DEVICE page initialization to the
> point where we init pgmap" I had overlooked the reference count that was
> being held per page on the pgmap. As a result on running the ndctl test
> "create.sh" we would call into devm_memremap_pages_release and encounter
> the following percpu reference count error and hang:
>   WARNING: CPU: 30 PID: 0 at lib/percpu-refcount.c:155
>   percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu+0xf3/0x120
>
> This patch addresses that by performing an update for all of the device
> PFNs in a single call. In my testing this seems to resolve the issue while
> still allowing us to retain the improvements seen in memory initialization.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

Tested-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

Thanks Alex!
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