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

Wei Yang
2019-11-21T01:05:48Z

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 04:07:38PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>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?
>

ok, you may get some point. I lost some concentration here.

Thanks

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>
>Thanks,
>
>David / dhildenb

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