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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: migrate: fix an incorrect call of prep_transhuge_page()
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:18:55 -0500 Zi Yan <zi.yan@sent.com> wrote:

> In [1], Andrea reported that during memory hotplug/hot remove
> prep_transhuge_page() is called incorrectly on non-THP pages for
> migration, when THP is on but THP migration is not enabled.
> This leads to a bad state of target pages for migration.
>
> This patch fixes it by only calling prep_transhuge_page() when we are
> certain that the target page is THP.

What are the user-visible effects of the bug?

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