From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
"mike.kravetz@oracle.com" <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/16] mm,hwpoison: cleanup unused PageHuge() check
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:16:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191021121636.GL9379@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191021070046.GA8782@hori.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>
On Mon 21-10-19 07:00:46, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 01:48:32PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 17-10-19 16:21:08, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> > >
> > > Drop the PageHuge check since memory_failure forks into memory_failure_hugetlb()
> > > for hugetlb pages.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> >
> > s-o-b chain is reversed.
> >
> > The code is a bit confusing. Doesn't this check aim for THP?
>
> No, PageHuge() is false for thp, so this if branch is just dead code.
>
> > AFAICS
> > PageTransHuge(hpage) will split the THP or fail so PageTransHuge
> > shouldn't be possible anymore, right?
>
> Yes, that's right.
>
> > But why does hwpoison_user_mappings
> > still work with hpage then?
>
> hwpoison_user_mappings() is called both from memory_failure() and
> from memory_failure_hugetlb(), so it need handle both cases.
Thanks for the clarification. Maybe the changelog could be more explicit
because the code is quite confusing.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-21 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-17 14:21 [RFC PATCH v2 00/16] Hwpoison rework {hard,soft}-offline Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/16] mm,hwpoison: cleanup unused PageHuge() check Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18 11:48 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-21 7:00 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-21 12:16 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-11-12 12:22 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-11-13 6:02 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/16] mm,madvise: call soft_offline_page() without MF_COUNT_INCREASED Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18 11:52 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-21 7:02 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-21 12:20 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/16] mm,madvise: Refactor madvise_inject_error Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 7:03 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/16] mm,hwpoison-inject: don't pin for hwpoison_filter Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/16] mm,hwpoison: Un-export get_hwpoison_page and make it static Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 7:03 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/16] mm,hwpoison: Kill put_hwpoison_page Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 7:04 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/16] mm,hwpoison: remove MF_COUNT_INCREASED Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/16] mm,hwpoison: remove flag argument from soft offline functions Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/16] mm,hwpoison: Unify THP handling for hard and soft offline Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 7:04 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-21 9:51 ` [PATCH 17/16] mm,hwpoison: introduce MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-22 8:00 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/16] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for free pages Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18 12:06 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-21 12:58 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 15:41 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 7:46 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-22 8:26 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 8:35 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-22 9:22 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 9:58 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-22 10:24 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 10:33 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-23 2:15 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-23 2:01 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-21 7:45 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-22 8:00 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/16] mm,hwpoison: Rework soft offline for in-use pages Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18 12:39 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-21 13:48 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 14:06 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 7:56 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-22 8:30 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 9:40 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/16] mm,hwpoison: Refactor soft_offline_huge_page and __soft_offline_page Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/16] mm,hwpoison: Take pages off the buddy when hard-offlining Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 14/16] mm,hwpoison: Return 0 if the page is already poisoned in soft-offline Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 9:20 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/16] mm/hwpoison-inject: Rip off duplicated checks Oscar Salvador
2019-10-21 9:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-10-22 7:57 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-10-17 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 16/16] mm, soft-offline: convert parameter to pfn Oscar Salvador
2019-10-18 8:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-06-11 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 00/16] Hwpoison rework {hard,soft}-offline Dmitry Yakunin
2020-06-15 6:19 ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
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