Re: [PATCH 03/10] soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead of migrate_huge_page()

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> writes:

> Currently migrate_huge_page() takes a pointer to a hugepage to be
> migrated as an argument, instead of taking a pointer to the list of
> hugepages to be migrated. This behavior was introduced in commit
> 189ebff28 ("hugetlb: simplify migrate_huge_page()"), and was OK
> because until now hugepage migration is enabled only for soft-offlining
> which takes only one hugepage in a single call.
>
> But the situation will change in the later patches in this series
> which enable other users of page migration to support hugepage migration.
> They can kick migration for both of normal pages and hugepages
> in a single call, so we need to go back to original implementation
> of using linked lists to collect the hugepages to be migrated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> ---
>  mm/memory-failure.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  mm/migrate.c        |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git v3.9-rc3.orig/mm/memory-failure.c v3.9-rc3/mm/memory-failure.c
> index df0694c..4e01082 100644
> --- v3.9-rc3.orig/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ v3.9-rc3/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1467,6 +1467,7 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page, int flags)
>  	int ret;
>  	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
>  	struct page *hpage = compound_head(page);
> +	LIST_HEAD(pagelist);
>
>  	/*
>  	 * This double-check of PageHWPoison is to avoid the race with
> @@ -1482,12 +1483,20 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page, int flags)
>  	unlock_page(hpage);
>
>  	/* Keep page count to indicate a given hugepage is isolated. */
> -	ret = migrate_huge_page(hpage, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL,
> -				MIGRATE_SYNC);
> -	put_page(hpage);
> +	list_move(&hpage->lru, &pagelist);

we use hpage->lru to add the hpage to h->hugepage_activelist. This will
break a hugetlb cgroup removal isn't it ?


> +	ret = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL,
> +				MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_MEMORY_FAILURE);
>  	if (ret) {
>  		pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: migration failed %d, type %lx\n",
>  			pfn, ret, page->flags);
> +		/*
> +		 * We know that soft_offline_huge_page() tries to migrate
> +		 * only one hugepage pointed to by hpage, so we need not
> +		 * run through the pagelist here.
> +		 */
> +		putback_active_hugepage(hpage);
> +		if (ret > 0)
> +			ret = -EIO;
>  	} else {
>  		set_page_hwpoison_huge_page(hpage);
>  		dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage);
> diff --git v3.9-rc3.orig/mm/migrate.c v3.9-rc3/mm/migrate.c
> index f69f354..66030b6 100644
> --- v3.9-rc3.orig/mm/migrate.c
> +++ v3.9-rc3/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -981,6 +981,8 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_page_t get_new_page,
>
>  	unlock_page(hpage);
>  out:
> +	if (rc != -EAGAIN)
> +		putback_active_hugepage(hpage);
>  	put_page(new_hpage);
>  	if (result) {
>  		if (rc)
> -- 

-aneesh