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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2010-09-28 01:39:30 +0400
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2010-10-08 11:33:01 +0400
commita08c80ebb621a6dc277c91e029acb725f2f20254 (patch)
treecfd43f8deaed341e81623b693579e51c09809dc1 /mm/memory-failure.c
parent9033ae16407f46ae06f559f9374281f6e9d89efc (diff)
downloadlinux-a08c80ebb621a6dc277c91e029acb725f2f20254.tar.xz
HWPOISON: Remove retry loop for try_to_unmap
We don't reply in other temporary failure cases and there were no reports of replies happening. I think the original reason it was added was also just an early bug, not an observation of the race. So remove the loop for now, but keep a warning message. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory-failure.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory-failure.c15
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 88653c93e4ce..2044fe8920c2 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -840,8 +840,6 @@ static int page_action(struct page_state *ps, struct page *p,
return (result == RECOVERED || result == DELAYED) ? 0 : -EBUSY;
}
-#define N_UNMAP_TRIES 5
-
/*
* Do all that is necessary to remove user space mappings. Unmap
* the pages and send SIGBUS to the processes if the data was dirty.
@@ -853,7 +851,6 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
struct address_space *mapping;
LIST_HEAD(tokill);
int ret;
- int i;
int kill = 1;
struct page *hpage = compound_head(p);
@@ -907,17 +904,7 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
if (kill)
collect_procs(hpage, &tokill);
- /*
- * try_to_unmap can fail temporarily due to races.
- * Try a few times (RED-PEN better strategy?)
- */
- for (i = 0; i < N_UNMAP_TRIES; i++) {
- ret = try_to_unmap(hpage, ttu);
- if (ret == SWAP_SUCCESS)
- break;
- pr_debug("MCE %#lx: try_to_unmap retry needed %d\n", pfn, ret);
- }
-
+ ret = try_to_unmap(hpage, ttu);
if (ret != SWAP_SUCCESS)
printk(KERN_ERR "MCE %#lx: failed to unmap page (mapcount=%d)\n",
pfn, page_mapcount(hpage));