linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] mm/hotplug: enable memory hotplug for non-lru movable pages

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 03:29:57 +0000
From:   Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:     Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>
CC:     "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "mhocko@...nel.org" <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        "minchan@...nel.org" <minchan@...nel.org>,
        "ak@...ux.intel.com" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        "guohanjun@...wei.com" <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
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        "iamjoonsoo.kim@....com" <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        "mgorman@...hsingularity.net" <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        "arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com" <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>,
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        "qiuxishi@...wei.com" <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] mm/hotplug: enable memory hotplug for non-lru
 movable pages

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 03:59:30PM +0800, Yisheng Xie wrote:
> We had considered all of the non-lru pages as unmovable before commit
> bda807d44454 ("mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration").  But
> now some of non-lru pages like zsmalloc, virtio-balloon pages also become
> movable.  So we can offline such blocks by using non-lru page migration.
> 
> This patch straightforwardly adds non-lru migration code, which means
> adding non-lru related code to the functions which scan over pfn and
> collect pages to be migrated and isolate them before migration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
> Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
> ---
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>  mm/page_alloc.c     |  8 ++++++--
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index ca2723d..ea1be08 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -1516,10 +1516,10 @@ int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> - * Scan pfn range [start,end) to find movable/migratable pages (LRU pages
> - * and hugepages). We scan pfn because it's much easier than scanning over
> - * linked list. This function returns the pfn of the first found movable
> - * page if it's found, otherwise 0.
> + * Scan pfn range [start,end) to find movable/migratable pages (LRU pages,
> + * non-lru movable pages and hugepages). We scan pfn because it's much
> + * easier than scanning over linked list. This function returns the pfn
> + * of the first found movable page if it's found, otherwise 0.
>   */
>  static unsigned long scan_movable_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>  {
> @@ -1530,6 +1530,8 @@ static unsigned long scan_movable_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>  			page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>  			if (PageLRU(page))
>  				return pfn;
> +			if (__PageMovable(page))
> +				return pfn;
>  			if (PageHuge(page)) {
>  				if (page_huge_active(page))
>  					return pfn;
> @@ -1606,21 +1608,25 @@ static struct page *new_node_page(struct page *page, unsigned long private,
>  		if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
>  			continue;
>  		/*
> -		 * We can skip free pages. And we can only deal with pages on
> -		 * LRU.
> +		 * We can skip free pages. And we can deal with pages on
> +		 * LRU and non-lru movable pages.
>  		 */
> -		ret = isolate_lru_page(page);
> +		if (PageLRU(page))
> +			ret = isolate_lru_page(page);
> +		else
> +			ret = isolate_movable_page(page, ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE);
>  		if (!ret) { /* Success */
>  			put_page(page);
>  			list_add_tail(&page->lru, &source);
>  			move_pages--;
> -			inc_node_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
> -					    page_is_file_cache(page));
> +			if (!__PageMovable(page))

If this check is identical with "if (PageLRU(page))" in this context,
PageLRU(page) looks better because you already add same "if" above.

Otherwise, looks good to me.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi