Don't use the reserve pool when soft offlining a hugepage. Check we have free pages outside the reserve pool before we dequeue the huge page. Otherwise, we can steal other's reserve page. Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 6782b41..d971233 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -935,10 +935,11 @@ static struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid) */ struct page *alloc_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid) { - struct page *page; + struct page *page = NULL; spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock); - page = dequeue_huge_page_node(h, nid); + if (h->free_huge_pages - h->resv_huge_pages > 0) + page = dequeue_huge_page_node(h, nid); spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock); if (!page) -- 1.7.9.5 -- 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>