Re: [PATCH 5/7] migrate_pages(): fix failure counting for THP on -ENOSYS

[Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 6/24/2022 10:53 AM, Huang Ying wrote:
> If THP or hugetlbfs page migration isn't supported, unmap_and_move()
> or unmap_and_move_huge_page() will return -ENOSYS.  For THP, splitting
> will be tried, but if splitting doesn't succeed, the THP will be left
> in "from" list wrongly.  If some other pages are retried, the THP
> migration failure will counted again.  This is fixed via moving the
> failure THP from "from" to "ret_pages".
> 
> Another issue of the original code is that the unsupported failure
> processing isn't consistent between THP and hugetlbfs page.  Make them
> consistent in this patch to make the code easier to be understood too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Fixes: 5984fabb6e82 ("mm: move_pages: report the number of non-attempted pages")
> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
> ---

LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

>   mm/migrate.c | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index 61dab3025a1d..9d1883d5927f 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1191,10 +1191,8 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_page_t get_new_page,
>   	 * tables or check whether the hugepage is pmd-based or not before
>   	 * kicking migration.
>   	 */
> -	if (!hugepage_migration_supported(page_hstate(hpage))) {
> -		list_move_tail(&hpage->lru, ret);
> +	if (!hugepage_migration_supported(page_hstate(hpage)))
>   		return -ENOSYS;
> -	}
>   
>   	if (page_count(hpage) == 1) {
>   		/* page was freed from under us. So we are done. */
> @@ -1391,6 +1389,7 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
>   			 *		 page will be put back
>   			 *	-EAGAIN: stay on the from list
>   			 *	-ENOMEM: stay on the from list
> +			 *	-ENOSYS: stay on the from list
>   			 *	Other errno: put on ret_pages list then splice to
>   			 *		     from list
>   			 */
> @@ -1420,6 +1419,7 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
>   				}
>   
>   				nr_failed_pages += nr_subpages;
> +				list_move_tail(&page->lru, &ret_pages);
>   				break;
>   			case -ENOMEM:
>   				/*