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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move page_assign_page_cgroup to VM_BUG_ON in free_hot_cold_page
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:14:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198084473.15321.48.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071219061834.8461.3974.sendpatchset@balbir-laptop>

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 11:48 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~memory-controller-move-to-bug-on-in-free_hot_cold_page mm/page_alloc.c
> --- linux-2.6.24-rc5/mm/page_alloc.c~memory-controller-move-to-bug-on-in-free_hot_cold_page     2007-12-19 11:31:46.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc5-balbir/mm/page_alloc.c     2007-12-19 11:33:45.000000000 +0530
> @@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ static void fastcall free_hot_cold_page(
>  
>         if (!PageHighMem(page))
>                 debug_check_no_locks_freed(page_address(page), PAGE_SIZE);
> -       page_assign_page_cgroup(page, NULL);
> +       VM_BUG_ON(page_get_page_cgroup(page));
>         arch_free_page(page, 0);
>         kernel_map_pages(page, 1, 0); 

Hi Balbir,

You generally want to do these like:

	foo = page_assign_page_cgroup(page, NULL);
	VM_BUG_ON(foo);

Some embedded people have been known to optimize kernel size like this:

	#define VM_BUG_ON(x) do{}while(0)

-- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-19 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-19  6:18 [PATCH] Move page_assign_page_cgroup to VM_BUG_ON in free_hot_cold_page Balbir Singh
2007-12-19 17:14 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2007-12-20 13:14   ` Hugh Dickins
2007-12-20 13:51     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-20 14:16       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-12-20 14:20         ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-20 16:24           ` Balbir Singh
2007-12-20 16:35             ` Dave Hansen
2007-12-20 17:12             ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-20 17:21               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-12-20 17:39                 ` Balbir Singh

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