Re: [PATCH v1] mm: hugetlb: remove incorrect comment

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 20-07-16 18:29:02, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
[...]
> >From 7da52ca6920dcd84e3da2df619bd5242f9c3ccec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:21:33 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: hwpoison: remove incorrect comment
> 
> dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page() can be called without page lock hold,
> so let's remove incorrect comment.
> 
> The reason why the page lock is not really needed is that
> dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page() checks page_huge_active() inside hugetlb_lock,
> which allows us to avoid trying to dequeue a hugepage that are just allocated
> but not linked to active list yet, even without taking page lock.

Thank you for the clarification!

> Reported-by: Zhan Chen <zhanc1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c        | 1 -
>  mm/memory-failure.c | 2 --
>  2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index c1f3c0be150a..26f735cc7478 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -4401,7 +4401,6 @@ follow_huge_pud(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
>  
>  /*
>   * This function is called from memory failure code.
> - * Assume the caller holds page lock of the head page.
>   */
>  int dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(struct page *hpage)
>  {
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 2fcca6b0e005..7532c3a8a39c 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -741,8 +741,6 @@ static int me_huge_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
>  	 * page->lru because it can be used in other hugepage operations,
>  	 * such as __unmap_hugepage_range() and gather_surplus_pages().
>  	 * So instead we use page_mapping() and PageAnon().
> -	 * We assume that this function is called with page lock held,
> -	 * so there is no race between isolation and mapping/unmapping.
>  	 */
>  	if (!(page_mapping(hpage) || PageAnon(hpage))) {
>  		res = dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage);
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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