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Re: [HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages

From Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages
Date 2017-01-09 10:30 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 11:46:28AM -0500, Jérôme Glisse wrote:
> Catch page from ZONE_DEVICE in free_hot_cold_page(). This should never
> happen as ZONE_DEVICE page must always have an elevated refcount.
> 
> This is safety-net to catch any refcounting issues in a sane way for any
> ZONE_DEVICE pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 1c24112..355beb4 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2445,6 +2445,16 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
>  	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
>  	int migratetype;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * This should never happen ! Page from ZONE_DEVICE always must have an
> +	 * active refcount. Complain about it and try to restore the refcount.
> +	 */
> +	if (is_zone_device_page(page)) {
> +		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_zone_device_page(page), page);

This can be VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(1, page), hopefully the compiler does the right thing
here. I suspect this should be a BUG_ON, independent of CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

> +		page_ref_inc(page);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +

Balbir Singh.

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[HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-01-06 16:50 +0100
  Re: [HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2017-01-09 10:30 +0100
    Re: [HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-01-09 17:30 +0100
      Re: [HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-01-09 18:00 +0100
        Re: [HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-01-09 18:10 +0100
          Re: [HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> - 2017-01-09 19:00 +0100

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