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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/8] memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 01:40:38PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Naoya Horiguchi
> <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> > @@ -518,9 +519,11 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid)
> > {
> > struct page *page;
> >
> > - if (list_empty(&h->hugepage_freelists[nid]))
> > + list_for_each_entry(page, &h->hugepage_freelists[nid], lru)
> > + if (!is_migrate_isolate_page(page))
> > + break;
> > + if (&h->hugepage_freelists[nid] == &page->lru)
>
> For what is this check?

This check returns true unless a non-isolated free hugepage is found.
In "not found" case page points to h->hugepage_freelists, so without
this check successive code doesn't work fine.

Thanks,
Naoya

> > return NULL;
> > - page = list_entry(h->hugepage_freelists[nid].next, struct page, lru);
> > list_move(&page->lru, &h->hugepage_activelist);
> > set_page_refcounted(page);
> > h->free_huge_pages--;
>


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