[PATCH v2 8/8] mm/isolation: remove useless race handling related to pageblock isolation

From: Joonsoo Kim
Date: Wed Aug 06 2014 - 03:12:15 EST


There is a mistake on moving freepage from normal buddy list to isolate
buddy list. If we move page from normal buddy list to isolate buddy list,
We should subtract freepage count in this case, but, it didn't.

And, previous patches ('mm/isolation: close the two race problems related
to pageblock isolation' and 'mm/isolation: change pageblock isolation logic
to fix freepage counting bugs') solves the race related to pageblock
isolation. So, this misplacement cannot happen and this workaround
aren't needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_isolation.c | 14 --------------
1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_isolation.c b/mm/page_isolation.c
index 063f1f9..48c8836 100644
--- a/mm/page_isolation.c
+++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
@@ -351,20 +351,6 @@ __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
}
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
if (PageBuddy(page)) {
- /*
- * If race between isolatation and allocation happens,
- * some free pages could be in MIGRATE_MOVABLE list
- * although pageblock's migratation type of the page
- * is MIGRATE_ISOLATE. Catch it and move the page into
- * MIGRATE_ISOLATE list.
- */
- if (get_freepage_migratetype(page) != MIGRATE_ISOLATE) {
- struct page *end_page;
-
- end_page = page + (1 << page_order(page)) - 1;
- move_freepages(page_zone(page), page, end_page,
- MIGRATE_ISOLATE);
- }
pfn += 1 << page_order(page);
} else if (skip_hwpoisoned_pages && PageHWPoison(page)) {
/*
--
1.7.9.5

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