linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm: hwpoison: adjust for new thp refcounting

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Date:	Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:34:43 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: hwpoison: adjust for new thp refcounting

On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 05:03:12PM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Some mm-related BUG_ON()s could trigger from hwpoison code due to recent
> changes in thp refcounting rule. This patch fixes them up.
> 
> In the new refcounting, we no longer use tail->_mapcount to keep tail's
> refcount, and thereby we can simplify get/put_hwpoison_page().
> 
> And another change is that tail's refcount is not transferred to the raw
> page during thp split (more precisely, in new rule we don't take refcount
> on tail page any more.) So when we need thp split, we have to transfer the
> refcount properly to the 4kB soft-offlined page before migration.
> 
> thp split code goes into core code only when precheck (total_mapcount(head)
> == page_count(head) - 1) passes to avoid useless split, where we assume that
> one refcount is held by the caller of thp split and the others are taken
> via mapping. To meet this assumption, this patch moves thp split part in
> soft_offline_page() after get_any_page().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> ---
> ChangeLog v1->v2:
> - leave put_hwpoison_page() as a macro
> 
> - based on mmotm-2015-10-21-14-41 + Kirill's "[PATCH 0/4] Bugfixes for THP
>   refcounting" series.
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h  |    1 +
>  mm/memory-failure.c |   75 +++++++++++++++------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git mmotm-2015-10-21-14-41/include/linux/mm.h mmotm-2015-10-21-14-41_patched/include/linux/mm.h
> index a36f9fa..51e3ffe 100644
> --- mmotm-2015-10-21-14-41/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ mmotm-2015-10-21-14-41_patched/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -2173,6 +2173,7 @@ extern int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags);
>  extern void memory_failure_queue(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags);
>  extern int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn);
>  extern int get_hwpoison_page(struct page *page);
> +#define put_hwpoison_page(page)	put_page(page)
>  extern void put_hwpoison_page(struct page *page);

This line should be removed.

Otherwise looks good to me.

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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