Messages in this thread | | | From | Muchun Song <> | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:13:02 +0800 | Subject | Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page |
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 6:02 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote: > > On Sun 10-01-21 20:40:14, Muchun Song wrote: > [...] > > @@ -1770,6 +1788,14 @@ int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page) > > int nid = page_to_nid(head); > > if (h->free_huge_pages - h->resv_huge_pages == 0) > > goto out; > > + > > + /* > > + * We should make sure that the page is already on the free list > > + * when it is dissolved. > > + */ > > + if (unlikely(!PageHugeFreed(head))) > > + goto out; > > + > > Do you really want to report EBUSY in this case? This doesn't make much > sense to me TBH. I believe you want to return 0 same as when you race > and the page is no longer PageHuge.
Return 0 is wrong. Because the page is not freed to the buddy allocator. IIUC, dissolve_free_huge_page returns 0 when the page is already freed to the buddy allocator. Right?
> > > /* > > * Move PageHWPoison flag from head page to the raw error page, > > * which makes any subpages rather than the error page reusable. > > -- > > 2.11.0 > > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs
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