Re: [PATCH] thp: allow a hwpoisoned head page to be put back to LRU

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:10:40PM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli pointed out to me that a check in __memory_failure() which
> was intended to prevent THP tail pages from being checked for the absence
> of the PG_lru flag (something that is always the case), was also preventing
> THP head pages from being checked.
> 
> A THP head page could actually benefit from the call to shake_page() by
> ending up being put back to a LRU, provided it had been waiting in a
> pagevec array.
> 
> Andrea suggested that the "!PageTransCompound(p)" in the if-statement
> should be replaced by a "!PageTransTail(p)", thus allowing THP head pages
> to be checked and possibly shaken.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
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