On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 05:31:29AM +0900, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > So here's the same patch, but with stuff moved around a bit, and the
> > "oops, couldn't create page" part fixed.
> >
> > Bit it's still totally and entirely untested.
> 
> Btw, I think this actually fixes a bug, in that it doesn't leak the
> page reference count if the do_mmap_pgoff() call fails.
> 
> That said, that looks like just a memory leak, not explaining the
> problem Dave sees. And maybe I'm missing something.
> 
> And no, I still haven't actually tested this at all. Is there an aio
> tester that is worth trying?

There are a few tests in the libaio source, some in xfstests and fio, and 
a few I've got sitting around.  To specifically exercise the page migration 
code path, there's a test at http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-numa-test.c .

                -ben

>                    Linus

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