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Message-ID: <20191022075959.GD19060@linux>
Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:     "mhocko@...nel.org" <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        "mike.kravetz@...cle.com" <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/16] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for free
 pages

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 07:45:33AM +0000, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > +extern bool take_page_off_buddy(struct page *page);
> > +
> > +static void page_handle_poison(struct page *page)
> 
> hwpoison is a separate idea from page poisoning, so maybe I think
> it's better to be named like page_handle_hwpoison().

Yeah, that sounds better.
 
> BTW, if we consider to make unpoison mechanism to keep up with the
> new semantics, we will need the reverse operation of take_page_off_buddy().
> Do you think that that part will come with a separate work?

Well, I am not really sure.
Since we grab a refcount in page_handle_poison, all unpoison mechanism does
is a "put_page", that should send the page back to buddy/pcp lists.
I did not spot any problem when testing it, but I will double check.

Thanks Naoya.

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3

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