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From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@aol.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
	zhangjun <openzhangj@gmail.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	hch@lst.de, bfoster@redhat.com,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
	mhocko@suse.com, n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com,
	mgorman@techsingularity.net, aarcange@redhat.com,
	willy@infradead.org, linux@dominikbrodowski.net,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix page_count in ->iomap_migrate_page()
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:55:01 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d18a4e12-c062-0c6c-52e4-83d5e2a14da5@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5520068.cAKZ7BqcUI@blindfold>

Hi Richard,

On 2018/12/14 21:35, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Hmm, in case of UBIFS it seems easy. We can add a get/put_page() around setting/clearing
> the flag.
> I did that now and so far none of my tests exploded.

Yes, many existed codes are based on this restriction in order to be freeable race-free.
and that's it since PG_Private was once introduced at first by Andrew Morton in 2002
for many Linux versions....and it's not bad I think... :)

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-14 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-14  5:56 zhangjun
2018-12-14 11:25 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-14 12:26   ` Gao Xiang
2018-12-14 13:35     ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-14 13:55       ` Gao Xiang [this message]
2018-12-15 10:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-15 11:17     ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-15  4:26 ` Gao Xiang

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