linux-kernel - [08/44] mm: fix is_mem_section_removable() page_order BUG

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Date:	Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:04:07 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: [08/44] mm: fix is_mem_section_removable() page_order BUG_ON check

2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

commit 572438f9b52236bd8938b1647cc15e027d27ef55 upstream.

page_order() is called by memory hotplug's user interface to check the
section is removable or not.  (is_mem_section_removable())

It calls page_order() withoug holding zone->lock.
So, even if the caller does

	if (PageBuddy(page))
		ret = page_order(page) ...
The caller may hit BUG_ON().

For fixing this, there are 2 choices.
  1. add zone->lock.
  2. remove BUG_ON().

is_mem_section_removable() is used for some "advice" and doesn't need to
be 100% accurate.  This is_removable() can be called via user program..
We don't want to take this important lock for long by user's request.  So,
this patch removes BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 mm/internal.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern void __free_pages_bootmem(struct
  */
 static inline unsigned long page_order(struct page *page)
 {
-	VM_BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page));
+	/* PageBuddy() must be checked by the caller */
 	return page_private(page);
 }
 


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