linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/16] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for free pages

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Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:06:15 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Cc:     n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com, mike.kravetz@...cle.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/16] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for free
 pages

On Thu 17-10-19 16:21:17, Oscar Salvador wrote:
[...]
> +bool take_page_off_buddy(struct page *page)
> + {
> +	struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
> +	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	unsigned int order;
> +	bool ret = false;
> +
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);

What prevents the page to be allocated in the meantime? Also what about
free pages on the pcp lists? Also the page could be gone by the time you
have reached here.

> +	for (order = 0; order < MAX_ORDER; order++) {
> +		struct page *page_head = page - (pfn & ((1 << order) - 1));
> +		int buddy_order = page_order(page_head);
> +		struct free_area *area = &(zone->free_area[buddy_order]);
> +
> +		if (PageBuddy(page_head) && buddy_order >= order) {
> +			unsigned long pfn_head = page_to_pfn(page_head);
> +			int migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page_head,
> +		                                                   pfn_head);
> +
> +			del_page_from_free_area(page_head, area);
> +			break_down_buddy_pages(zone, page_head, page, 0,
> +		                               buddy_order, area, migratetype);
> +			ret = true;
> +		        break;
> +		 }
> +	}
> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> +	return ret;
> + }
> +
> +/*
>   * Set PG_hwpoison flag if a given page is confirmed to be a free page.  This
>   * test is performed under the zone lock to prevent a race against page
>   * allocation.
> -- 
> 2.12.3

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs