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author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2010-10-26 14:22:08 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-26 16:52:11 -0700 |
commit | 572438f9b52236bd8938b1647cc15e027d27ef55 (patch) | |
tree | 040d41121c01501a613d5f280b2d9fd6ef562447 /mm/shmem.c | |
parent | 44e2aa937e698ea95dd86b2a4fabd734ef2c76db (diff) |
mm: fix is_mem_section_removable() page_order BUG_ON check
page_order() is called by memory hotplug's user interface to check the
section is removable or not. (is_mem_section_removable())
It calls page_order() withoug holding zone->lock.
So, even if the caller does
if (PageBuddy(page))
ret = page_order(page) ...
The caller may hit BUG_ON().
For fixing this, there are 2 choices.
1. add zone->lock.
2. remove BUG_ON().
is_mem_section_removable() is used for some "advice" and doesn't need to
be 100% accurate. This is_removable() can be called via user program..
We don't want to take this important lock for long by user's request. So,
this patch removes BUG_ON().
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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