Re: [PATCHv4 16/39] thp, mm: locking tail page is a bug

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Tue May 21 2013 - 16:18:44 EST


On 05/11/2013 06:23 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Locking head page means locking entire compound page.
> If we try to lock tail page, something went wrong.

Have you actually triggered this in your development?

This is another one that can theoretically get merged separately.

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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