Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: fix a crash in free_pages_prepare()

From: Qian Cai
Date: Mon Sep 30 2019 - 07:22:27 EST




> On Sep 30, 2019, at 7:04 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Looks like Power also uses the hook. Have you check that this patch will
> not affect Power?

Yes, I did. Although I did only test radix memory which seems just return immediately in arch_free_page(), I code-review the non-radix memory path and did not find anything suspicious. However, if really needed, I could test hash memory config or adding powerpc developers to double-check.