linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:40:38 +0800
From:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Naoya Horiguchi
<n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> wrote:
> @@ -518,9 +519,11 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid)
>  {
>         struct page *page;
>
> -       if (list_empty(&h->hugepage_freelists[nid]))
> +       list_for_each_entry(page, &h->hugepage_freelists[nid], lru)
> +               if (!is_migrate_isolate_page(page))
> +                       break;
> +       if (&h->hugepage_freelists[nid] == &page->lru)

For what is this check?

>                 return NULL;
> -       page = list_entry(h->hugepage_freelists[nid].next, struct page, lru);
>         list_move(&page->lru, &h->hugepage_activelist);
>         set_page_refcounted(page);
>         h->free_huge_pages--;
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