Re: [PATCH] memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated()

From: Nathan Fontenot
Date: Wed Oct 29 2008 - 14:00:51 EST


Looks like you beat me to it, and with a nicer fix too.

Gerald Schaefer wrote:
From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx>

My last bugfix here (adding zone->lock) introduced a new problem: Using
page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn)) to get the zone after the for() loop is wrong.
pfn will then be >= end_pfn, which may be in a different zone or not
present at all. This may lead to an addressing exception in page_zone()
or spin_lock_irqsave().

Now I use __first_valid_page() again after the loop to find a valid page
for page_zone().

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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