linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] mm: hugetlb: remove incorrect comment

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:10:53 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Zhan Chen <zhanc1@...rew.cmu.edu>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mm: hugetlb: remove incorrect comment

On Tue 19-07-16 11:08:18, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page() can be called without page lock hold,
> so let's remove incorrect comment.

Could you explain why the page lock is not really needed, please? Or
what has changed that it is not needed anymore?

Thanks!

> 
> Reported-by: Zhan Chen <zhanc1@...rew.cmu.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git v4.7-rc7/mm/hugetlb.c v4.7-rc7_patched/mm/hugetlb.c
> index c1f3c0b..26f735c 100644
> --- v4.7-rc7/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ v4.7-rc7_patched/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -4401,7 +4401,6 @@ follow_huge_pud(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
>  
>  /*
>   * This function is called from memory failure code.
> - * Assume the caller holds page lock of the head page.
>   */
>  int dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(struct page *hpage)
>  {
> -- 
> 2.7.0
> 
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs