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Re: [PATCH] mm/madvise: Dont poison entire HugeTLB page for single page errors

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On 05/12/2017 01:40 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:36:27PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> Currently soft_offline_page() migrates the entire HugeTLB page, then
>> dequeues it from the active list by making it a dangling HugeTLB page
>> which ofcourse can not be used further and marks the entire HugeTLB
>> page as poisoned. This might be a costly waste of memory if the error
>> involved affects only small section of the entire page.
>>
>> This changes the behaviour so that only the affected page is marked
>> poisoned and then the HugeTLB page is released back to buddy system.
> Hi Anshuman,
> 
> This is a good catch, and we can solve this issue now because freeing
> hwpoisoned page (previously forbidden) is available now.
> 
> And I'm thinking that the same issue for hard/soft-offline on free
> hugepages can be solved, so I'll submit a patchset which includes
> updated version of your patch.

Sure, thanks Naoya.

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Re: [PATCH] mm/madvise: Dont poison entire HugeTLB page for single  page errors Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> - 2017-05-12 10:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm/madvise: Dont poison entire HugeTLB page for single  page errors Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-14 04:40 +0200

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