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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:52:34 -0400
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
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To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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        Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
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        Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: clear pages_scanned only if draining a pcp adds pages
 to the buddy allocator again
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(6/15/12 3:19 AM), Minchan Kim wrote:
> On 06/15/2012 01:16 AM, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> From: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> commit 2ff754fa8f (mm: clear pages_scanned only if draining a pcp adds pages
>> to the buddy allocator again) fixed one free_pcppages_bulk() misuse. But two
>> another miuse still exist.
>>
>> This patch fixes it.
>>
>> Cc: David Rientjes<rientjes@google.com>
>> Cc: Mel Gorman<mel@csn.ul.ie>
>> Cc: Johannes Weiner<hannes@cmpxchg.org>
>> Cc: Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@intel.com>
>> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
>> Cc: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton<akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim<minchan@kernel.org>
>
> Just nitpick.
> Personally, I want to fix it follwing as
> It's more simple and reduce vulnerable error in future.
>
> If you mind, go ahead with your version. I am not against with it, either.

I don't like your version because free_pcppages_bulk() can be called from
free_pages() hotpath. then, i wouldn't like to put a branch if we can avoid it.
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