From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm: Check page poison before finding a head page
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 11:32:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+CK2bAXmTLc93PaMN=aY3Fak=jeQTcHg_HEo5Gfc7472SSwPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200408150148.25290-6-willy@infradead.org>
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:01 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
>
> If a page is poisoned, the page->compound_head will be set to -1.
> Since it has bit zero set, we will think it is a tail page, and the head
> page is at 0xff..fe. Checking said head page for being poisoned will
> not have good results. Therefore we need to check for poison in each
> of compound_head(), PageTail() and PageCompound() (and can remove the
> checks which are now redundant from the PF_ macros).
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-08 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-08 15:01 [PATCH 0/5] Improve page poisoning implementation Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: Constify a lot of struct page arguments Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-08 15:14 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-04-09 14:09 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-04-09 14:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-09 14:28 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-04-09 14:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-09 14:47 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-04-09 15:00 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-04-09 17:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-09 20:47 ` John Hubbard
2020-04-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: Rename PF_POISONED_PAGE to page_poison_check Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-08 15:21 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-04-09 14:14 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-04-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: Remove casting away of constness Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-08 15:23 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-04-09 14:19 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-04-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: Check for page poison in both page_to_nid implementations Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-08 15:24 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-04-09 14:21 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-04-08 15:01 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm: Check page poison before finding a head page Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-08 15:32 ` Pavel Tatashin [this message]
2020-04-09 14:25 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-04-08 15:11 ` [PATCH 0/5] Improve page poisoning implementation Pavel Tatashin
2020-04-09 20:55 ` John Hubbard
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