linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2][BUGFIX] mm: do not use page

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Message-ID: <4FD94A6E.3050906@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:20:30 +0900
From:	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2][BUGFIX] mm: do not use page_count without a page
 pin

(2012/06/14 10:12), Minchan Kim wrote:
> d179e84ba fixed the problem[1] in vmscan.c but same problem is here.
> Let's fix it.
> 
> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/65844
> 
> I copy and paste d179e84ba's contents for description.
> 
> "It is unsafe to run page_count during the physical pfn scan because
> compound_head could trip on a dangling pointer when reading
> page->first_page if the compound page is being freed by another CPU."
> 
> * changelog from v1
>    - Add comment about skip tail page of THP - Andrea
>    - fix typo - Wanpeng Li
>    - based on next-20120613
> 
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli<aarcange@...hat.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman<mgorman@...e.de>
> Cc: Michal Hocko<mhocko@...e.cz>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Wanpeng Li<liwp.linux@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim<minchan@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

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