linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] HWpoison: further fixes and cleanups

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Message-ID: <20200916175813.GD17169@cathedrallabs.org>
Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:58:14 -0400
From:   Aristeu Rozanski <aris@...vo.org>
To:     osalvador@...e.de
Cc:     naoya.horiguchi@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        mhocko@...nel.org, tony.luck@...el.com, cai@....pw,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] HWpoison: further fixes and cleanups

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 06:34:52PM +0200, osalvador@...e.de wrote:
> Fat fingers, sorry:
> 
> Ok, this is something different.
> The race you saw previously is kinda normal as there is a race window 
> between spotting a freepage and taking it off the buddy freelists.
> The retry patch should help there.
> 
> The issue you are seeing right here is due to the call to 
> page_handle_poison in __soft_offline_page being wrong, as we pass 
> hugepage_or_freepage = true inconditionally, which is wrong.
> I think it was caused during rebasing.
> 
> Should be:

Tests passed with this patch on top of others.
Thanks!

-- 
Aristeu