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Oscar Salvador b94e02822d mm,hwpoison: try to narrow window race for free pages
Aristeu Rozanski reported that a customer test case started to report
-EBUSY after the hwpoison rework patchset.

There is a race window between spotting a free page and taking it off its
buddy freelist, so it might be that by the time we try to take it off, the
page has been already allocated.

This patch tries to handle such race window by trying to handle the new
type of page again if the page was allocated under us.

Reported-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200922135650.1634-15-osalvador@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-16 11:11:17 -07:00
arch powerpc/mm: move setting pte specific flags to pfn_pte 2020-10-16 11:11:14 -07:00
block - Improve DM core's bio splitting to use blk_max_size_offset(). Also 2020-10-14 15:05:38 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
Documentation XArray: add xas_split 2020-10-16 11:11:15 -07:00
drivers device-dax/kmem: fix resource release 2020-10-16 11:11:14 -07:00
fs mm/readahead: make page_cache_ra_unbounded take a readahead_control 2020-10-16 11:11:16 -07:00
include mm,hwpoison: introduce MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP 2020-10-16 11:11:17 -07:00
init Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2020-10-15 15:11:56 -07:00
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kernel Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2020-10-15 15:11:56 -07:00
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mm mm,hwpoison: try to narrow window race for free pages 2020-10-16 11:11:17 -07:00
net io_uring-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 12:36:21 -07:00
samples configfs updates for 5.10 2020-10-15 14:52:45 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2020-10-15 15:11:56 -07:00
security Char/Misc driver patches for 5.10-rc1 2020-10-15 10:01:51 -07:00
sound dma-mapping updates for 5.10 2020-10-15 14:43:29 -07:00
tools linux-kselftest-kunit-fixes-5.10-rc1 2020-10-15 15:17:06 -07:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt KVM: fix memory leak in kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev() 2020-09-11 13:15:11 -04:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Hartmut Knaack to Credits 2020-09-06 17:02:44 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
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Makefile Revert "kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-constants" 2020-10-13 18:38:26 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.