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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 145f5181e4cd..73f5d4556b3d 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -7652,11 +7652,18 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, /* * In case of -EBUSY, we'd like to know which page causes problem. - * So, just fall through. We will check it in test_pages_isolated(). + * So, just fall through. test_pages_isolated() has a tracepoint + * which will report the busy page. + * + * It is possible that busy pages could become available before + * the call to test_pages_isolated, and the range will actually be + * allocated. So, if we fall through be sure to clear ret so that + * -EBUSY is not accidentally used or returned to caller. */ ret = __alloc_contig_migrate_range(&cc, start, end); if (ret && ret != -EBUSY) goto done; + ret =0; /* * Pages from [start, end) are within a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES |