linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make is_mem_section_removable more conformable with offlining code

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Date:	Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:42:32 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@...el.com>,
	Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make is_mem_section_removable more conformable with
 offlining code

Hi Michal,

It helps to explain in changelog/code

- in what situation a ZONE_MOVABLE will contain !MIGRATE_MOVABLE
  pages? And why the MIGRATE_MOVABLE test is still necessary given the
  ZONE_MOVABLE check?

- why do you think free pages are not removeable? Simply to cater for
  the set_migratetype_isolate() logic, or there are more fundamental
  reasons?

Thanks,
Fengguang

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Hi,
> what do you think about the patch below?
> 
> >From b983695b92b5be58f31c719fada1d3245f7b6768 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:39:16 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Make is_mem_section_removable more conformable with offlining code
> 
> Currently is_mem_section_removable checks whether each pageblock from
> the given pfn range is of MIGRATE_MOVABLE type or if it is free. If both
> are false then the range is considered non removable.
> 
> On the other hand, offlining code (more specifically
> set_migratetype_isolate) doesn't care whether a page is free and instead
> it just checks the migrate type of the page and whether the page's zone
> is movable.
> 
> This can lead into a situation when a node is marked as removable even
> though all pages are neither MIGRATE_MOVABLE nor the zone is
> ZONE_MOVABLE.
> 
> Also we can mark a node as not removable just because a pageblock is
> MIGRATE_RESERVE and not free (and this situation is much more probable).
> ---
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index a4cfcdc..da20568 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -611,10 +611,10 @@ int is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
>  		type = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
>  
>  		/*
> -		 * A pageblock containing MOVABLE or free pages is considered
> -		 * removable
> +		 * A pageblock containing MOVABLE or page from movable
> +		 * zone are considered removable
>  		 */
> -		if (type != MIGRATE_MOVABLE && !pageblock_free(page))
> +		if (type != MIGRATE_MOVABLE && zone_idx(page) != ZONE_MOVABLE)
>  			return 0;
>  
>  		/*
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
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