Re: [v3 PATCH 4/5] mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens

From: Yang Shi
Date: Tue Oct 12 2021 - 23:29:20 EST


On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 8:07 PM Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 08:00:31PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > The page refcount could stop collapsing hwpoison page. One could argue
> > khugepaged could bail out earlier by checking hwpoison flag, but it is
> > definitely not a must do. So it relies on refcount now.
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> I suppose you mean the page_ref_freeze() in collapse_file()? Yeah that seems
> to work too. Thanks,

Yes, exactly.

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> Peter Xu
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