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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/10] memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 05:29:19PM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
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> > If we made sure that all page on the hugepage_freelists have reference
> > 0 (which is now not the case and it is yet another source of confusion)
> > then the whole loop could be replaced by page_count check.
>
> I think that free hugepages have refcount 0, but hwpoisoned hugepages
> have also refcount 0. But hwpoison can happen only on limited hardware
> and we consider them as exceptional, so replacing page_count check and
> checking PG_hwpoisoned flag looks more reasonable to me.

Sorry, my mistake. Hwpoisoned hugepages have refcount 1, so there's
no problem on using page_count check.

Naoya


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