linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm,hwpoison: Refactor get_any

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Date:   Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:54:54 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm,hwpoison: Refactor get_any_page

On 11/19/20 11:57 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> When we want to grab a refcount via get_any_page, we call
> __get_any_page that calls get_hwpoison_page to get the
> actual refcount.
> get_any_page is only there because we have a sort of retry
> mechanism in case the page we met is unknown to us or
> if we raced with an allocation.
> 
> Also __get_any_page prints some messages about the page type
> in case the page was a free page or the page type was unknown,
> but if anything, we only need to print a message in case the
> pagetype was unknown, as that is reporting an error down the chain.
> 
> Let us merge get_any_page and __get_any_page, and let the message
> be printed in soft_offline_page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <Vbabka@...e.cz>