Re: [PATCH v2] mm/balloon_compaction: avoid duplicate page removal

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jul 18 2019 - 16:36:30 EST


On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 08:26:11 -0400 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 05:27:20PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> > Fixes: 418a3ab1e778 (mm/balloon_compaction: List interfaces)
> >
> > A #GP is reported in the guest when requesting balloon inflation via
> > virtio-balloon. The reason is that the virtio-balloon driver has
> > removed the page from its internal page list (via balloon_page_pop),
> > but balloon_page_enqueue_one also calls "list_del" to do the removal.
> > This is necessary when it's used from balloon_page_enqueue_list, but
> > not from balloon_page_enqueue_one.
> >
> > So remove the list_del balloon_page_enqueue_one, and update some
> > comments as a reminder.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> ok I posted v3 with typo fixes. 1/2 is this patch with comment changes. Pls take a look.

I really have no idea what you're talking about here :(. Some other
discussion and patch thread, I suppose.

You're OK with this patch?

Should this patch have cc:stable?