On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:52:46AM +0800, Wang Xiaoqiang wrote:
...
> In your example, the 100th subage enter the memory
> error handler firstly, and then it uses the
> set_page_hwpoison_huge_page to set all subpages
> with PG_HWPoison flag, the 50th page handler waits
> for grab the lock_page(hpage) now.
>
> When the 100th page handler unlock the 'hpage',
> the 50th grab it, and now the 'hapge' has been
> set with PG_HWPosison. So PageHWPoison micro
> will return true, and the following code will
> be executed:
>
> if (PageHWPoison(hpage)) {
> if ((hwpoison_filter(p) && TestClearPageHWPoison(p))
> || (p != hpage && TestSetPageHWPoison(hpage))) {
> atomic_long_sub(nr_pages, &num_poisoned_pages);
> unlock_page(hpage);
> return 0;
> }
> }
>
> Now 'p' is 50th subpage, it doesn't equal the
> 'hpage' obviously, so if we don't have TestSetPageHWPoison
> here, it still will ignore the 50th error.
Ah, you're right, thanks for the explanation, Xiaoqiang!
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>--
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