On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 11:46:28AM -0500, Jérôme Glisse wrote:
> Catch page from ZONE_DEVICE in free_hot_cold_page(). This should never
> happen as ZONE_DEVICE page must always have an elevated refcount.
> 
> This is safety-net to catch any refcounting issues in a sane way for any
> ZONE_DEVICE pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <[email protected]>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 1c24112..355beb4 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2445,6 +2445,16 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
>       unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
>       int migratetype;
>  
> +     /*
> +      * This should never happen ! Page from ZONE_DEVICE always must have an
> +      * active refcount. Complain about it and try to restore the refcount.
> +      */
> +     if (is_zone_device_page(page)) {
> +             VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_zone_device_page(page), page);

This can be VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(1, page), hopefully the compiler does the right thing
here. I suspect this should be a BUG_ON, independent of CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

> +             page_ref_inc(page);
> +             return;
> +     }
> +

Balbir Singh.

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