The patch titled Subject: mm/hwpoison: fix fail isolate hugetlbfs page w/ refcount held has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hwpoison-fix-fail-isolate-hugetlbfs-page-w-refcount-held.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hwpoison-fix-fail-isolate-hugetlbfs-page-w-refcount-held.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hwpoison-fix-fail-isolate-hugetlbfs-page-w-refcount-held.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hwpoison: fix fail isolate hugetlbfs page w/ refcount held Hugetlbfs pages will get a refcount in get_any_page() or madvise_hwpoison() if soft offlining through madvise. The refcount which is held by the soft offline path should be released if we fail to isolate hugetlbfs pages. Fix it by reducing the refcount for both isolation success and failure. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.9+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hwpoison-fix-fail-isolate-hugetlbfs-page-w-refcount-held mm/memory-failure.c --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hwpoison-fix-fail-isolate-hugetlbfs-page-w-refcount-held +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1569,13 +1569,12 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct unlock_page(hpage); ret = isolate_huge_page(hpage, &pagelist); - if (ret) { - /* - * get_any_page() and isolate_huge_page() takes a refcount each, - * so need to drop one here. - */ - put_page(hpage); - } else { + /* + * get_any_page() and isolate_huge_page() takes a refcount each, + * so need to drop one here. + */ + put_page(hpage); + if (!ret) { pr_info("soft offline: %#lx hugepage failed to isolate\n", pfn); return -EBUSY; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx are mm-hwpoison-fix-page-refcount-of-unkown-non-lru-page.patch mm-hwpoison-fix-fail-isolate-hugetlbfs-page-w-refcount-held.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html