Re: [PATCH] mm, memory_hotplug: check zone_movable in has_unmovable_pages

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Wed 07-11-18 23:53:24, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 08:35:48AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 07-11-18 07:35:18, Balbir Singh wrote:
[...]
> > > The check seems to be quite aggressive and in a loop that iterates
> > > pages, but has nothing to do with the page, did you mean to make
> > > the check
> > > 
> > > zone_idx(page_zone(page)) == ZONE_MOVABLE
> > 
> > Does it make any difference? Can we actually encounter a page from a
> > different zone here?
> > 
> 
> Just to avoid page state related issues, do we want to go ahead
> with the migration if zone_idx(page_zone(page)) != ZONE_MOVABLE.

Could you be more specific what kind of state related issues you have in
mind?

> > > it also skips all checks for pinned pages and other checks
> > 
> > Yes, this is intentional and the comment tries to explain why. I wish we
> > could be add a more specific checks for movable pages - e.g. detect long
> > term pins that would prevent migration - but we do not have any facility
> > for that. Please note that the worst case of a false positive is a
> > repeated migration failure and user has a way to break out of migration
> > by a signal.
> >
> 
> Basically isolate_pages() will fail as opposed to hotplug failing upfront.
> The basic assertion this patch makes is that all ZONE_MOVABLE pages that
> are not reserved are hotpluggable.

Yes, that is correct.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs