linux-kernel - [PATCH] memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages

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Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:25:30 +0100
From:	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, y-goto@...fujitsu.com,
	dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH] memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in
	test_pages_isolated()

From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>

My last bugfix here (adding zone->lock) introduced a new problem: Using
page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn)) to get the zone after the for() loop is wrong.
pfn will then be >= end_pfn, which may be in a different zone or not
present at all. This may lead to an addressing exception in page_zone()
or spin_lock_irqsave().

Now I use __first_valid_page() again after the loop to find a valid page
for page_zone().

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>

---
 mm/page_isolation.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_isolation.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_isolation.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_isolation.c
@@ -130,10 +130,11 @@ int test_pages_isolated(unsigned long st
 		if (page && get_pageblock_migratetype(page) != MIGRATE_ISOLATE)
 			break;
 	}
-	if (pfn < end_pfn)
+	page = __first_valid_page(start_pfn, end_pfn - start_pfn);
+	if ((pfn < end_pfn) || !page)
 		return -EBUSY;
 	/* Check all pages are free or Marked as ISOLATED */
-	zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn));
+	zone = page_zone(page);
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
 	ret = __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock(start_pfn, end_pfn);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);

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