Re: [RFC][PATCH] HWPOISON: remove the unsafe __set_page_locked()

Andi Kleen
2009-09-26T21:32:07Z

> This is a bit tricky to do right now; you have a chicken and egg
> problem between locking the page and pinning the inode mapping.

One possibly simple solution would be to just allocate the page
locked (GFP_LOCKED). When the allocator clears the flags it already
modifies the state, so it could as well set the lock bit too. No
atomics needed. And then clearing it later is also atomic free.

Would that satisfy the concerns?

Again another way is to just ignore it.

-Andi