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(IOW zspage chain page?) > >> the lock again, to retake the lock when trying to migrate it. >> >> That means, there is a window where a zspage can be freed although the page >> is isolated for migration. > > I see, thanks. Looks somewhat fragile. Is this a new thing? No, it's been like that forever. And I was surprised that only zsmalloc behaves that way -- balloon implements isolation as one would expect it (disallow freeing while isolated). > >> While we currently keep that working (as far as I can see), in the future we >> want to remove that support from the core. > > Maybe comment can more explicitly distinguish zspage isolation and > physical page (zspage chain) isolation? zspages can get isolated > for compaction (defragmentation), for instance, which is a different > form of isolation. Well, it's confusing, as we have MM compaction (-> migration) and apparently zs_compact. I'll try to clarify that we are talking about isolation for page migration purposes. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb