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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thp: avoid VM_BUG_ON page_count(page) false positives in __collapse_huge_page_copy
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:14:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5065BEBF.1010705@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348835731-27474-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com>

On 09/28/2012 08:35 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Speculative cache pagecache lookups can elevate the refcount from
> under us, so avoid the false positive. If the refcount is < 2 we'll be
> notified by a VM_BUG_ON in put_page_testzero as there are two
> put_page(src_page) in a row before returning from this function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-28 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-28 12:35 [PATCH] thp: avoid VM_BUG_ON page_count(page) false positives in __collapse_huge_page_copy Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-28 15:14 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-09-28 15:31 ` Johannes Weiner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-09-25 18:11 Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-25 18:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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