linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MCE: fix an error of mce_bad

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Date:	Fri, 7 Dec 2012 08:46:43 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
Cc:	WuJianguo <wujianguo@...wei.com>, Liujiang <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	andi@...stfloor.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MCE: fix an error of mce_bad_pages statistics

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:35:15PM +0800, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> Hi Borislav, you mean we should move this to the beginning of soft_offline_page()?
> 
> soft_offline_page()
> {
> 	...
> 	get_any_page()
> 	...
> 	/*
> 	 * Synchronized using the page lock with memory_failure()
> 	 */
> 	if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
> 		unlock_page(page);

Basically yes, except without the unlock_page. Where do you do lock_page
earlier so that you need to unlock it now?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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