Re: [PATCH] thp: avoid VM_BUG_ON page_count(page) false positives in __collapse_huge_page_copy

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On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Speculative cache pagecache lookups can elevate the refcount from
> under us, so avoid the false positive. If the refcount is < 2 we'll be
> notified by a VM_BUG_ON in put_page_testzero as there are two
> put_page(src_page) in a row before returning from this function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>

Much better, thank you.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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