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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: soft-offline: return -EBUSY if set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() fails
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On 6/17/19 1:51 AM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> The pass/fail of soft offline should be judged by checking whether the
> raw error page was finally contained or not (i.e. the result of
> set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page()), but current code do not work like that.
> So this patch is suggesting to fix it.
>
> Without this fix, there are cases where madvise(MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) may
> not offline the original page and will not return an error. It might
> lead us to misjudge the test result when set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page()
> actually fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

Thanks for the updates,

Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>

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Mike Kravetz

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