Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Make alloc_contig_range handle in-use hugetlb pages

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>]

On Wed 17-02-21 11:08:16, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> In-use hugetlb pages can be migrated as any other page (LRU
> and Movable), so let alloc_contig_range handle them.
> 
> All we need is to succesfully isolate such page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> ---
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h |  5 +++--
>  mm/compaction.c         | 11 ++++++++++-
>  mm/hugetlb.c            |  6 ++++--
>  mm/vmscan.c             |  5 +++--
>  4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> index 72352d718829..8c17d0dbc87c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ struct huge_bootmem_page {
>  	struct hstate *hstate;
>  };
>  
> -bool isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page(struct page *page);
> +bool isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list);
>  struct page *alloc_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  				unsigned long addr, int avoid_reserve);
>  struct page *alloc_huge_page_nodemask(struct hstate *h, int preferred_nid,
> @@ -776,7 +776,8 @@ void set_page_huge_active(struct page *page);
>  #else	/* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
>  struct hstate {};
>  
> -static inline bool isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page(struct page *page)
> +static inline bool isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page(struct page *page,
> +						 struct list_head *list)
>  {
>  	return false;
>  }
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index d52506ed9db7..55a41a9228a9 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -906,9 +906,17 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
>  		}
>  
>  		if (PageHuge(page) && cc->alloc_contig) {
> -			if (!isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page(page))
> +			if (!isolate_or_dissolve_huge_page(page, &cc->migratepages))
>  				goto isolate_fail;
>  
> +			if (PageHuge(page)) {
> +				/*
> +				 * Hugepage was succesfully isolated.
> +				 */
> +				low_pfn += compound_nr(page) - 1;
> +				goto isolate_success_no_list;
> +			}
> +
>  			/*
>  			 * Ok, the hugepage was dissolved. Now these pages are
>  			 * Buddy and cannot be re-allocated because they are
> @@ -1053,6 +1061,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
>  
>  isolate_success:
>  		list_add(&page->lru, &cc->migratepages);
> +isolate_success_no_list:
>  		cc->nr_migratepages += compound_nr(page);

I do not follow. You have successfully isolated huge pages so why don't
you add that page to the migratepages list to be migrated?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs