Re: [PATCH] HWPOISON: Implement hwpoison-on-free for soft offlining

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 10:06:25 EST


Penttilä Mika <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Please always cc people when answering list emails.
Missed this earlier.

>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> @@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ static inline int free_pages_check(struct page *page)
>> (page->mapping != NULL) |
>> (atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0) |
>> (page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE))) {
>> + if (PageHWPoisonOnFree(page))
>> + hwpoison_page_on_free(page);
>
> hwpoison_page_on_free() seems to be undefined when
> CONFIG_HWPOISON_ON_FREE is not defined.

The optimizer takes care of that.

>
>> bad_page(page);
>> return 1;
>> }
>
> And of course PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE should include
> pahehwpoisononfree this to be effective

It is of course (__PG_HWPOISON_ON_FREE)

Thanks for the review.

-Andi

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