linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, numa: rework do_pages

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Message-ID: <20180102121237.GC25397@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:12:37 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrea Reale <ar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm, numa: rework do_pages_move

On Tue 02-01-18 16:55:46, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 12/08/2017 09:45 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> > 
> > do_pages_move is supposed to move user defined memory (an array of
> > addresses) to the user defined numa nodes (an array of nodes one for
> > each address). The user provided status array then contains resulting
> > numa node for each address or an error. The semantic of this function is
> > little bit confusing because only some errors are reported back. Notably
> > migrate_pages error is only reported via the return value. This patch
> 
> It does report back the migration failures as well. In new_page_node
> there is '*result = &pm->status' which going forward in unmap_and_move
> will hold migration error or node ID of the new page.
> 
> 	newpage = get_new_page(page, private, &result);
> 	............
> 	if (result) {
> 		if (rc)
> 			*result = rc;
> 		else
> 			*result = page_to_nid(newpage);
> 	}
> 

This is true, except the user will not get this information. Have a look
how we do not copy status on error up in the do_pages_move layer.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs