Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/memory-failure.c: not necessary to recalculate hpage

David Hildenbrand
2019-11-20T15:07:48Z

On 18.11.19 09:20, Wei Yang wrote:
> hpage is not changed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> mm/memory-failure.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 392ac277b17d..9784f4339ae7 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1319,7 +1319,6 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
> }
> unlock_page(p);
> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(p), p);
> - hpage = compound_head(p);
> }
>
> /*
>

I am *absolutely* no transparent huge page expert (sorry :) ), but won't
the split_huge_page(p) eventually split the compound page, such that
compound_head(p) will return something else after that call?

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb