Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/memory-failure.c: make non-LRU movable pages unhandlable

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On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 03:46:13PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> We can not really handle non-LRU movable pages in memory failure. Typically
> they are balloon, zsmalloc, etc. Assuming we run into a base (4K) non-LRU
> movable page, we could reach as far as identify_page_state(), it should not
> fall into any category except me_unknown. For the non-LRU compound movable
> pages, they could be taken for transhuge pages but it's unexpected to split
> non-LRU  movable pages using split_huge_page_to_list in memory_failure. So
> we could just simply make non-LRU  movable pages unhandlable to avoid these
> possible nasty cases.
> 
> Suggested-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>




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