Re: PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 aoe: handle zero _count pages in bios

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 23:49:37 EST


On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:48:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 04:30:39 +0000 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > But in this case we'd really need to enforce this, and add a
> > BUG_ON(PageSlab(page)) in bio_add_page to trip everyone submit
> > this kind of pages.
>
> That would be
>
> BUG_ON(PageSlab(page) && page_count(page) == 0)?

No, all slab pages. Currently they all have a reference count of
zero, but we generally don't want people to pass in pages that
come from a non-refcounted allocator.

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