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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] mm,hwpoison: Refactor get_any_page
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    On 11/19/20 11:57 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
    > When we want to grab a refcount via get_any_page, we call
    > __get_any_page that calls get_hwpoison_page to get the
    > actual refcount.
    > get_any_page is only there because we have a sort of retry
    > mechanism in case the page we met is unknown to us or
    > if we raced with an allocation.
    >
    > Also __get_any_page prints some messages about the page type
    > in case the page was a free page or the page type was unknown,
    > but if anything, we only need to print a message in case the
    > pagetype was unknown, as that is reporting an error down the chain.
    >
    > Let us merge get_any_page and __get_any_page, and let the message
    > be printed in soft_offline_page.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>

    Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <Vbabka@suse.cz>

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