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

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>]

On Tue 26-03-13 16:59:40, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> writes:
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> > 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 ?

This particular part will not break removal because
hugetlb_cgroup_css_offline loops until hugetlb_cgroup_have_usage is 0.

Little bit offtopic:
Btw. hugetlb migration breaks to charging even before this patchset
AFAICS. The above put_page should remove the last reference and then it
will uncharge it but I do not see anything that would charge a new page.
This is all because regula LRU pages are uncharged when they are
unmapped. But this a different story not related to this series.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs