linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [3/16] POISON: Handle poisoned pages in page free

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Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:51:21 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/16] POISON: Handle poisoned pages in page free

> >
> >        /*
> > +        * Page may have been marked bad before process is freeing it.
> > +        * Make sure it is not put back into the free page lists.
> > +        */
> > +       if (PagePoison(page)) {
> > +               /* check more flags here... */
> 
> How about adding WARNING with some information(ex, pfn, flags..).

The memory_failure() code is already quite chatty. Don't think more
noise is needed currently.

Or are you worrying about the case where a page gets corrupted
by software and suddenly has Poison bits set? (e.g. 0xff everywhere).
That would deserve a printk, but I'm not sure how to reliably test for
that. After all a lot of flag combinations are valid.

-Andi

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