Re: [HMM v15 01/16] mm/free_hot_cold_page: catch ZONE_DEVICE pages

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Mon Jan 09 2017 - 04:20:15 EST


On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 11:46:28AM -0500, Jérôme Glisse wrote:
> Catch page from ZONE_DEVICE in free_hot_cold_page(). This should never
> happen as ZONE_DEVICE page must always have an elevated refcount.
>
> This is safety-net to catch any refcounting issues in a sane way for any
> ZONE_DEVICE pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 1c24112..355beb4 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2445,6 +2445,16 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
> unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> int migratetype;
>
> + /*
> + * This should never happen ! Page from ZONE_DEVICE always must have an
> + * active refcount. Complain about it and try to restore the refcount.
> + */
> + if (is_zone_device_page(page)) {
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_zone_device_page(page), page);

This can be VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(1, page), hopefully the compiler does the right thing
here. I suspect this should be a BUG_ON, independent of CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

> + page_ref_inc(page);
> + return;
> + }
> +

Balbir Singh.