On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 8:49 AM Christopher Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A process has no refcount on a page struct and is waiting for it to become > unlocked? Why? Should it not simply ignore that page and continue? The problem isn't that you can just "continue". You need to *retry*. And you can't just busy-loop. You want to wait until the page state has changed, and _then_ retry. Linus