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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:26:20 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/16] page-flags: define PG_locked behavior on compound
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:08:29AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> > SLUB uses PG_locked as a bit spin locked.  IIUC, tail pages should never
> > appear there.  VM_BUG_ON() is added to make sure that this assumption is
> > correct.
> 
> Correct. However, VM_BUG_ON is superfluous. If there is a tail page there
> then the information in the page will be not as expected (free list
> parameter f.e.) and things will fall apart rapidly with segfaults.

Right. But would it provide any clues on what is going on?

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 Kirill A. Shutemov