On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 07:42:13PM +0800, Michal Hocko wrote: > +/* > + * A free or LRU pages block are removable > + * Do not use MIGRATE_MOVABLE because it can be insufficient and > + * other MIGRATE types are tricky. > + * Do not hold zone->lock as this is used from user space by the > + * sysfs interface. > + */ > +bool is_page_removable(struct page *page) > +{ > + int page_block = 1 << pageblock_order; > + > + /* All pages from the MOVABLE zone are movable */ > + if (zone_idx(page_zone(page)) == ZONE_MOVABLE) > + return true; > + > + while (page_block > 0) { > + int order = 0; > + > + if (pfn_valid_within(page_to_pfn(page))) { > + if (!page_count(page) && PageBuddy(page)) { PageBuddy() is true only for the head page and false for all tail pages. So when is_page_removable() is given a random 4k page (get_any_page() will exactly do that), the above test is not enough. It's recommended to reuse is_free_buddy_page(). (Need to do some cleanup work first: remove the "#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE" and abstract out an __is_free_buddy_page() that takes no lock.) > @@ -5277,14 +5277,11 @@ int set_migratetype_isolate(struct page *page) > struct memory_isolate_notify arg; > int notifier_ret; > int ret = -EBUSY; > - int zone_idx; > > zone = page_zone(page); > - zone_idx = zone_idx(zone); > > spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags); > - if (get_pageblock_migratetype(page) == MIGRATE_MOVABLE || > - zone_idx == ZONE_MOVABLE) { > + if (is_page_removable(page)) { > ret = 0; > goto out; The above check only applies to the first page in the page block. The following "if (!page_count(curr_page) || PageLRU(curr_page))" check in the same function should be converted too (and that's another reason to use __is_free_buddy_page(): it will be tested for every 4k pages, including both the head and tail pages). Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>