linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] mm,hwpoison: drain pcplists before bailing out for non-buddy zero-refcount page

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Date:   Fri, 25 Sep 2020 02:22:27 +0000
From:   HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口　直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
To:     Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
CC:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "aris@...vo.org" <aris@...vo.org>,
        "mhocko@...nel.org" <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        "tony.luck@...el.com" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "cai@....pw" <cai@....pw>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] mm,hwpoison: drain pcplists before bailing out for
 non-buddy zero-refcount page

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:10:47AM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> A page with 0-refcount and !PageBuddy could perfectly be a pcppage.
> Currently, we bail out with an error if we encounter such a page, meaning
> that we do not handle pcppages neither from hard-offline nor from
> soft-offline path.
> 
> Fix this by draining pcplists whenever we find this kind of page and retry
> the check again.  It might be that pcplists have been spilled into the
> buddy allocator and so we can handle it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>