From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: Make paranoid check in move_freepages a VM_BUG_ON
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:32:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5410B54E.1020607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140909145228.GB12309@suse.de>
On 09/09/2014 10:52 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Since 2.6.24 there has been a paranoid check in move_freepages that looks
> up the zone of two pages. This is a very slow path and the only time I've
> seen this bug trigger recently is when memory initialisation was broken
> during patch development. Despite the fact it's a slow path, this patch
> converts the check to a VM_BUG_ON anyway as it is served its purpose by now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-09 14:52 [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: Make paranoid check in move_freepages a VM_BUG_ON Mel Gorman
2014-09-10 19:02 ` David Rientjes
2014-09-10 20:32 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-09-17 18:30 ` Johannes Weiner
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