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From: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)" <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>,
	"Oscar Salvador" <osalvador@suse.de>,
	tdmackey@twitter.com, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Linux MM" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: hwpoison: don't drop slab caches for offlining non-LRU page
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:24:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHbLzkoE6h9dmRp6zfaKdLjq2y24+PV-yBUv6RMXtzKvPFdBkw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YRq+kCOW4zb4vfxA@casper.infradead.org>

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 12:38 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 11:09:08AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > But the most disappointing thing is all the effort doesn't make the page
> > offline, it just returns:
> >
> > soft_offline: 0x1469f2: unknown non LRU page type 5ffff0000000000 ()
>
> It's a shame it doesn't call dump_page().  There might be more
> interesting information somewhere in struct page that would help us
> figure out what kind of page it was in your environment.  For example,
> it might be a page table page or a page allocated for vmalloc(), and
> in both those cases, there are things we might be able to do (we'd
> certainly be able to figure out that it isn't worth shrinking slab!)

Yes,  dump_page() could provide more information to us. I could add a
new patch or just update this patch to call dump_page() if offline is
failed if the hwpoison maintainer agrees to this as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-16 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-16 18:09 [PATCH 1/2] mm: hwpoison: don't drop slab caches for offlining non-LRU page Yang Shi
2021-08-16 18:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: hwpoison: correct the support for hugepage Yang Shi
2021-08-18  6:36   ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-08-16 19:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: hwpoison: don't drop slab caches for offlining non-LRU page David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 19:04   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 19:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 19:37   ` Yang Shi
2021-08-16 19:40     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-16 19:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-16 20:24   ` Yang Shi [this message]
2021-08-18  5:02     ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-08-18 17:45       ` Yang Shi
2021-08-18  6:30 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2021-08-18  7:24   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-18  7:53     ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2021-08-18  7:55       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-18 17:04         ` Yang Shi
2021-08-18 17:02   ` Yang Shi
2021-08-18 18:01   ` Yang Shi

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