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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-10-26 14:22:08 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-12-09 13:24:16 -0800
commit6b5df7b78075c50f4918da9f4d7cdb99b145de23 (patch)
tree42e0f1d9f83bfdde2db9f985495b300c3246a522 /mm
parentb9187a11bc39b9c499593a04d6a132ce784e0623 (diff)
mm: fix is_mem_section_removable() page_order BUG_ON check
commit 572438f9b52236bd8938b1647cc15e027d27ef55 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/internal.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 92729ea9dc8c..362319a57eec 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern void __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
*/
static inline unsigned long page_order(struct page *page)
{
- VM_BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page));
+ /* PageBuddy() must be checked by the caller */
return page_private(page);
}