linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/10] migrate: add hugepage migration code to migrate

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Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:13:10 -0400
From:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
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 05/10] migrate: add hugepage migration code to
 migrate_pages()

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 02:04:16PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 22-03-13 16:23:50, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> [...]
> > @@ -523,6 +544,11 @@ static inline int check_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pud_t *pud,
> >  	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
> >  	do {
> >  		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
> > +		if (pmd_huge(*pmd) && is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
> > +			check_hugetlb_pmd_range(vma, pmd, nodes,
> > +						flags, private);
> 
> I am afraid this has the same issue with other huge page sizes I have
> mentioned earlier.

So we need arch-dependent helper functions. I'll try that, but it
might be better to start with enabling only x86_64 if it takes time
to implement this.

> > +			continue;
> > +		}
> >  		split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
> >  		if (pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(pmd))
> >  			continue;
> [...]
> > @@ -1012,14 +1040,8 @@ static int migrate_to_node(struct mm_struct *mm, int source, int dest,
> >  	check_range(mm, mm->mmap->vm_start, mm->task_size, &nmask,
> >  			flags | MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK, &pagelist);
> >  
> > -	if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) {
> > -		err = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_node_page, dest,
> > +	return migrate_movable_pages(&pagelist, new_node_page, dest,
> >  					MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_SYSCALL);
> > -		if (err)
> > -			putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
> > -	}
> > -
> > -	return err;
> 
> This is really confusing. Why migrate_pages doesn't do putback cleanup
> on its own but migrate_movable_pages does?

I consider migrate_movable_pages() as a wrapper of migrate_pages(),
not the variant of migrate_pages().
We can find the same pattern in the callers like

  if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) {
        err = migrate_pages(...);
        if (err)
                putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
  }

, so it can be simplified by migrate_movable_pages().

Thanks,
Naoya
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