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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] mm/hugetlb: clear compound_nr before freeing gigantic pages
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 18:55:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201208185530.GJ7338@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201208182813.66391-2-gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 07:28:13PM +0100, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> This is because only the compound_order is cleared in
> destroy_compound_gigantic_page(), and compound_nr is set to 1U << order == 1
> for order 0 in set_compound_order(page, 0).

I didn't realise there was a separate destroy path for gigantic pages.
Thanks for catching and fixing this.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-08 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-08 18:28 [RFC PATCH 0/1] "Bad page state" while freeing gigantic pages Gerald Schaefer
2020-12-08 18:28 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] mm/hugetlb: clear compound_nr before " Gerald Schaefer
2020-12-08 18:55   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-12-08 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] "Bad page state" while " Christian Borntraeger

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