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From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/compaction: count pages and stop correctly during page isolation.
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:20:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7DC14FB8-8DA4-4DB4-BB0B-3409CA8D6DD9@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201029172822.da31fa5ab34c3a795361768f@linux-foundation.org>

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On 29 Oct 2020, at 20:28, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:31:28 -0400 Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Shall you add Fixes tag to commit
>>> 1da2f328fa643bd72197dfed0c655148af31e4eb? And may cc stable.
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>> Fixes: 1da2f328fa64 (“mm,thp,compaction,cma: allow THP migration for CMA allocations”)
>>
>> stable cc'ed.
>
> A think a cc:stable really requires a description of the end-user
> visible effects of the bug.  Could you please provide that?

Sure.

For example, in a system with 16GB memory and an 8GB CMA region reserved by hugetlb_cma,
if we first allocate 10GB THPs and mlock them (so some THPs are allocated in the CMA
region and mlocked), reserving 6 1GB hugetlb pages via
/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages will get stuck (looping
in too_many_isolated function) until we kill either task. With the patch applied,
oom will kill the application with 10GB THPs and let hugetlb page reservation finish.

—
Best Regards,
Yan Zi

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-30  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-29 20:04 [PATCH] mm/compaction: count pages and stop correctly during page isolation Zi Yan
2020-10-29 21:14 ` Yang Shi
2020-10-29 21:31   ` Zi Yan
2020-10-30  0:28     ` Andrew Morton
2020-10-30  1:20       ` Zi Yan [this message]
2020-10-30  9:43 ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-30 12:20   ` Zi Yan
2020-10-30 13:36     ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-30 14:35       ` Zi Yan
2020-10-30 14:49         ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-30 14:53           ` Zi Yan
2020-10-30 14:55           ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-10-30 18:33       ` Yang Shi
2020-10-30 18:39         ` Zi Yan
2020-10-30 18:55           ` Yang Shi
2020-11-02 13:03             ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-02 16:39               ` Yang Shi
2020-10-30 14:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-10-30 15:18   ` Zi Yan

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