> It is another topic, I mean since the page is poisoned, so why not isolate it > from page buddy alocator in soft_offline_page() rather than in check_new_page(). > I find soft_offline_page() only migrate the page and mark HWPoison, the poisoned > page is still managed by page buddy alocator. Doing it in check_new_page is the only way if the page is currently allocated by someone. Since that's not uncommon it's simplest to always do it this way. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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>