From: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
To: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com>,
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: drop migrate type checks from has_unmovable_pages
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:22:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59E9A426.5070009@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171020021329.GB10438@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE>
On 2017/10/20 10:13, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 02:21:18PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Thu 19-10-17 10:20:41, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Thu 19-10-17 16:33:56, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 09:15:03AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>> On Thu 19-10-17 11:51:11, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This patch will break the CMA user. As you mentioned, CMA allocation
>>>>>> itself isn't migrateable. So, after a single page is allocated through
>>>>>> CMA allocation, has_unmovable_pages() will return true for this
>>>>>> pageblock. Then, futher CMA allocation request to this pageblock will
>>>>>> fail because it requires isolating the pageblock.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, does this mean that the CMA allocation path depends on
>>>>> has_unmovable_pages to return false here even though the memory is not
>>>>> movable? This sounds really strange to me and kind of abuse of this
>>>>
>>>> Your understanding is correct. Perhaps, abuse or wrong function name.
>>>>
>>>>> function. Which path is that? Can we do the migrate type test theres?
>>>>
>>>> alloc_contig_range() -> start_isolate_page_range() ->
>>>> set_migratetype_isolate() -> has_unmovable_pages()
>>>
>>> I see. It seems that the CMA and memory hotplug have a very different
>>> view on what should happen during isolation.
>>>
>>>> We can add one argument, 'XXX' to set_migratetype_isolate() and change
>>>> it to check migrate type rather than has_unmovable_pages() if 'XXX' is
>>>> specified.
>>>
>>> Can we use the migratetype argument and do the special thing for
>>> MIGRATE_CMA? Like the following diff?
>>
>> And with the full changelog.
>> ---
>> >From 8cbd811d741f5dd93d1b21bb3ef94482a4d0bd32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:14:02 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] mm: distinguish CMA and MOVABLE isolation in
>> has_unmovable_pages
>>
>> Joonsoo has noticed that "mm: drop migrate type checks from
>> has_unmovable_pages" would break CMA allocator because it relies on
>> has_unmovable_pages returning false even for CMA pageblocks which in
>> fact don't have to be movable:
>> alloc_contig_range
>> start_isolate_page_range
>> set_migratetype_isolate
>> has_unmovable_pages
>>
>> This is a result of the code sharing between CMA and memory hotplug
>> while each one has a different idea of what has_unmovable_pages should
>> return. This is unfortunate but fixing it properly would require a lot
>> of code duplication.
>>
>> Fix the issue by introducing the requested migrate type argument
>> and special case MIGRATE_CMA case where CMA page blocks are handled
>> properly. This will work for memory hotplug because it requires
>> MIGRATE_MOVABLE.
>
> Unfortunately, alloc_contig_range() can be called with
> MIGRATE_MOVABLE so this patch cannot perfectly fix the problem.
>
> I did a more thinking and found that it's strange to check if there is
> unmovable page in the pageblock during the set_migratetype_isolate().
> set_migratetype_isolate() should be just for setting the migratetype
> of the pageblock. Checking other things should be done by another
> place, for example, before calling the start_isolate_page_range() in
> __offline_pages().
>
> Thanks.
>
Hi Joonsoo,
How about add a flag to skip or not has_unmovable_pages() in set_migratetype_isolate()?
Something like the skip_hwpoisoned_pages.
Thanks,
Xishi Qiu
>
> .
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-20 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-18 7:08 [PATCH v2 0/2] mm, memory_hotplug: redefine memory offline retry logic Michal Hocko
2017-09-18 7:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm, memory_hotplug: do not fail offlining too early Michal Hocko
2017-10-10 12:05 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-10-10 12:27 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-11 2:37 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-10-11 5:19 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-10-11 14:05 ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-10-11 14:16 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-11 6:51 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-11 8:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-11 8:13 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-11 11:17 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-11 11:24 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-13 11:42 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-10-13 11:58 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-13 12:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: drop migrate type checks from has_unmovable_pages Michal Hocko
2017-10-13 12:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm, page_alloc: fail has_unmovable_pages when seeing reserved pages Michal Hocko
2017-10-13 12:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-13 12:07 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-17 13:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-17 11:41 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: drop migrate type checks from has_unmovable_pages Michael Ellerman
2017-10-17 12:03 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-17 13:02 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-19 2:51 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-19 7:15 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-19 7:33 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-19 8:20 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-19 12:21 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-20 2:13 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-20 5:59 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-20 6:50 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-20 7:02 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-23 5:23 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-23 8:10 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-24 4:44 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-24 7:44 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-24 8:12 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-24 12:25 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-26 2:47 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-26 7:41 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-20 7:22 ` Xishi Qiu [this message]
2017-10-20 8:17 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-23 5:26 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-10-26 13:04 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-26 13:59 ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-18 7:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: remove timeout from __offline_memory Michal Hocko
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2017-11-13 7:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: drop migrate type checks from has_unmovable_pages Ran Wang
2017-11-13 11:02 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-14 6:10 ` Ran Wang
2017-11-14 7:06 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-14 7:45 ` Ran Wang
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