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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 06/20] mm, hugetlb: return a reserved page to a reserved pool if failed
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 03:24:13PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> writes:
>
> > If we fail with a reserved page, just calling put_page() is not sufficient,
> > because put_page() invoke free_huge_page() at last step and it doesn't
> > know whether a page comes from a reserved pool or not. So it doesn't do
> > anything related to reserved count. This makes reserve count lower
> > than how we need, because reserve count already decrease in
> > dequeue_huge_page_vma(). This patch fix this situation.
>
> You may want to document you are using PagePrivate for tracking
> reservation and why it is ok to that.

Okay! I will do it in next spin.

Thanks.


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