Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm: soft-offline: fix race against page allocation

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Aug 15 2018 - 18:43:38 EST


On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:32:30 +0900 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've updated the patchset based on feedbacks:
>
> - updated comments (from Andrew),
> - moved calling set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() from mm/migrate.c to mm/memory-failure.c,
> which is necessary to check the return code of set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(),
> - lkp bot reported a build error when only 1/2 is applied.
>
> > mm/memory-failure.c: In function 'soft_offline_huge_page':
> > >> mm/memory-failure.c:1610:8: error: implicit declaration of function
> > 'set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page'; did you mean 'is_free_buddy_page'?
> > [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page))
> > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > is_free_buddy_page
> > cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
>
> set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() is defined in 2/2, so we can't use it
> in 1/2. Simply doing s/set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page/!TestSetPageHWPoison/
> will fix this.
>
> v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/12/968
>

Quite a bit of discussion on these two, but no actual acks or
review-by's?