Re: [PATCH] hwpoison: fix oops on ksm pages

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:02:11PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Memory failure on a KSM page currently oopses on its NULL anon_vma in
> page_lock_anon_vma(): that may not be much worse than the consequence
> of ignoring it, but it is better to be consistent with how ZERO_PAGE
> and hugetlb pages and other awkward cases are treated.  Just skip it.

Thanks, Hugh. I'm curious: did this come out of code review or
did you actually run into that?

-Andi

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