linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HWPOISON: Implement hwpoison-on-free for soft offlining

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Date:	Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:06:08 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Penttilä Mika <mika.penttila@...nos.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HWPOISON: Implement hwpoison-on-free for soft offlining

Penttilä Mika <mika.penttila@...nos.com> writes:

Please always cc people when answering list emails.
Missed this earlier.

>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> @@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ static inline int free_pages_check(struct page *page)
>>  		(page->mapping != NULL)  |
>>  		(atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0) |
>>  		(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE))) {
>> +		if (PageHWPoisonOnFree(page))
>> +			hwpoison_page_on_free(page);
>
> hwpoison_page_on_free() seems to be undefined when
> CONFIG_HWPOISON_ON_FREE is not defined.

The optimizer takes care of that.

>
>>  		bad_page(page);
>>  		return 1;
>>  	}
>
> And of course PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE should include
> pahehwpoisononfree this to be effective

It is of course (__PG_HWPOISON_ON_FREE)

Thanks for the review.

-Andi

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