Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/hwpoison: fix fail to split THP w/ refcount held

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Mon Aug 10 2015 - 04:19:00 EST


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 02:32:30PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> THP pages will get a refcount in madvise_hwpoison() w/ MF_COUNT_INCREASED
> flag, however, the refcount is still held when fail to split THP pages.
>
> Fix it by reducing the refcount of THP pages when fail to split THP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>

It seems that the same conditional put_page() would be added to
"soft offline: %#lx page already poisoned" branch too, right?

> ---
> mm/memory-failure.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 8077b1c..56b8a71 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1710,6 +1710,8 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
> if (PageAnon(hpage) && unlikely(split_huge_page(hpage))) {
> pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: failed to split THP\n",
> pfn);
> + if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)
> + put_page(page);
> return -EBUSY;
> }
> }
> --
> 1.7.1
>
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