linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/10] soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead of migrate_huge

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Date:	Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:31:28 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead of
 migrate_huge_page()

On Fri 22-03-13 16:23:48, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Currently migrate_huge_page() takes a pointer to a hugepage to be
> migrated as an argument, instead of taking a pointer to the list of
> hugepages to be migrated. This behavior was introduced in commit
> 189ebff28 ("hugetlb: simplify migrate_huge_page()"), and was OK
> because until now hugepage migration is enabled only for soft-offlining
> which takes only one hugepage in a single call.
> 
> But the situation will change in the later patches in this series
> which enable other users of page migration to support hugepage migration.
> They can kick migration for both of normal pages and hugepages
> in a single call, so we need to go back to original implementation
> of using linked lists to collect the hugepages to be migrated.

If the purpose of this patch is to reduce code duplication then you
should remove migrate_huge_page as it doesn't have any caller anymore.

[...]
> @@ -1482,12 +1483,20 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page, int flags)
>  	unlock_page(hpage);
>  
>  	/* Keep page count to indicate a given hugepage is isolated. */
> -	ret = migrate_huge_page(hpage, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL,
> -				MIGRATE_SYNC);
> -	put_page(hpage);
> +	list_move(&hpage->lru, &pagelist);
> +	ret = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL,
> +				MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_MEMORY_FAILURE);
>  	if (ret) {
>  		pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: migration failed %d, type %lx\n",
>  			pfn, ret, page->flags);
> +		/*
> +		 * We know that soft_offline_huge_page() tries to migrate
> +		 * only one hugepage pointed to by hpage, so we need not
> +		 * run through the pagelist here.
> +		 */
> +		putback_active_hugepage(hpage);

Maybe I am missing something but why we didn't need to call this before
when using migrate_huge_page?

> +		if (ret > 0)
> +			ret = -EIO;
>  	} else {
>  		set_page_hwpoison_huge_page(hpage);
>  		dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage);
> diff --git v3.9-rc3.orig/mm/migrate.c v3.9-rc3/mm/migrate.c
> index f69f354..66030b6 100644
> --- v3.9-rc3.orig/mm/migrate.c
> +++ v3.9-rc3/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -981,6 +981,8 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_page_t get_new_page,
>  
>  	unlock_page(hpage);
>  out:
> +	if (rc != -EAGAIN)
> +		putback_active_hugepage(hpage);

And why do you put it here? If it is called from migrate_pages then the
caller already does the clean-up (putback_lru_pages).

>  	put_page(new_hpage);
>  	if (result) {
>  		if (rc)
> -- 
> 1.7.11.7
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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