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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/3] mm/hugetlb: memory offline issues with hugepages
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 07:28:08PM +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> This addresses several issues with hugepages and memory offline. While
> the first patch fixes a panic, and is therefore rather important, the
> last patch is just a performance optimization.
>
> The second patch fixes a theoretical issue with reserved hugepages,
> while still leaving some ugly usability issue, see description.
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Add check for free vs. reserved hugepages
> - Revalidate checks in dissolve_free_huge_page() after taking the lock
> - Split up into 3 patches
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Add Fixes: c8721bbb
> - Add Cc: stable
> - Elaborate on losing the gigantic page vs. failing memory offline
> - Move page_count() check out of dissolve_free_huge_page()
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Update comment in dissolve_free_huge_pages()
> - Change locking in dissolve_free_huge_page()
>
> Gerald Schaefer (3):
> mm/hugetlb: fix memory offline with hugepage size > memory block size
> mm/hugetlb: check for reserved hugepages during memory offline
> mm/hugetlb: improve locking in dissolve_free_huge_pages()
>
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 6 +++---
> mm/hugetlb.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 +++-
> 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

I'm happy with these patches fixing/improving hugetlb offline code,
thank you very much, Gerald and reviewers/testers!

For patchset ...

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

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