Re: [HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 11:46:28AM -0500, Jérôme Glisse wrote:
> Catch page from ZONE_DEVICE in free_hot_cold_page(). This should never
> happen as ZONE_DEVICE page must always have an elevated refcount.
> 
> This is safety-net to catch any refcounting issues in a sane way for any
> ZONE_DEVICE pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 1c24112..355beb4 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2445,6 +2445,16 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
>  	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
>  	int migratetype;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * This should never happen ! Page from ZONE_DEVICE always must have an
> +	 * active refcount. Complain about it and try to restore the refcount.
> +	 */
> +	if (is_zone_device_page(page)) {
> +		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_zone_device_page(page), page);

This can be VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(1, page), hopefully the compiler does the right thing
here. I suspect this should be a BUG_ON, independent of CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

> +		page_ref_inc(page);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +

Balbir Singh.

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>



[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [eCos]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]