From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM Mailing List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: bootmem: Double freeing a PFN on nodes spanning other nodes
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 03:31:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4njulk1.fsf@saeurebad.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080519093525.4867bfb4.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's message of "Mon, 19 May 2008 09:35:25 +0900")
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 00:30:55 +0200
> Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When memory nodes overlap each other, the bootmem allocator is not aware
>> of this and might pass the same page twice to __free_pages_bootmem().
>>
>
> 1. init_bootmem_node() is called against a node, [start, end). After this,
> all pages are 'allocated'.
> 2. free_bootmem_node() is called against available memory in a node.
> 3. bootmem allocator is ready.
>
> memory overlap seems not to be trouble while an arch's code calls
> free_bootmem_node() correctly.
Ah, I totally overlooked that one. Thank you very much!
Hannes
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2008-05-16 22:30 Johannes Weiner
2008-05-19 0:35 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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