linux-kernel - Re: [v2 PATCH 2/2] mm: mempolicy: handle vma with unmovable pages mapped correctly in mbind

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:39:02 -0700
From:   Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, mhocko@...nel.org,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH 2/2] mm: mempolicy: handle vma with unmovable pages
 mapped correctly in mbind



On 7/17/19 11:23 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
>
>
> On 7/16/19 10:28 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7/16/19 5:07 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>> On 6/22/19 2:20 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
>>>> @@ -969,10 +975,21 @@ static long do_get_mempolicy(int *policy, 
>>>> nodemask_t *nmask,
>>>>   /*
>>>>    * page migration, thp tail pages can be passed.
>>>>    */
>>>> -static void migrate_page_add(struct page *page, struct list_head 
>>>> *pagelist,
>>>> +static int migrate_page_add(struct page *page, struct list_head 
>>>> *pagelist,
>>>>                   unsigned long flags)
>>>>   {
>>>>       struct page *head = compound_head(page);
>>>> +
>>>> +    /*
>>>> +     * Non-movable page may reach here.  And, there may be
>>>> +     * temporaty off LRU pages or non-LRU movable pages.
>>>> +     * Treat them as unmovable pages since they can't be
>>>> +     * isolated, so they can't be moved at the moment.  It
>>>> +     * should return -EIO for this case too.
>>>> +     */
>>>> +    if (!PageLRU(head) && (flags & MPOL_MF_STRICT))
>>>> +        return -EIO;
>>>> +
>>> Hm but !PageLRU() is not the only way why queueing for migration can
>>> fail, as can be seen from the rest of the function. Shouldn't all cases
>>> be reported?
>>
>> Do you mean the shared pages and isolation failed pages? I'm not sure 
>> whether we should consider these cases break the semantics or not, so 
>> I leave them as they are. But, strictly speaking they should be 
>> reported too, at least for the isolation failed page.
>
> By reading mbind man page, it says:
>
> If MPOL_MF_MOVE is specified in flags, then the kernel will attempt to 
> move all the existing pages in the memory range so that they follow 
> the policy.  Pages that are shared with other processes will not be 
> moved.  If MPOL_MF_STRICT is also specified, then the call fails with 
> the error EIO if some pages could not be moved.
>
> It looks the code already handles shared page correctly, we just need 
> return -EIO for isolation failed page if MPOL_MF_STRICT is specified.

Second look shows isolate_lru_page() returns error when and only when 
the page is *not* on LRU. So, we don't need change anything to this patch.

>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yang
>>
>>>
>>>>       /*
>>>>        * Avoid migrating a page that is shared with others.
>>>>        */
>>>> @@ -984,6 +1001,8 @@ static void migrate_page_add(struct page 
>>>> *page, struct list_head *pagelist,
>>>>                   hpage_nr_pages(head));
>>>>           }
>>>>       }
>>>> +
>>>> +    return 0;
>>>>   }
>>>>     /* page allocation callback for NUMA node migration */
>>>> @@ -1186,9 +1205,10 @@ static struct page *new_page(struct page 
>>>> *page, unsigned long start)
>>>>   }
>>>>   #else
>>>>   -static void migrate_page_add(struct page *page, struct list_head 
>>>> *pagelist,
>>>> +static int migrate_page_add(struct page *page, struct list_head 
>>>> *pagelist,
>>>>                   unsigned long flags)
>>>>   {
>>>> +    return -EIO;
>>>>   }
>>>>     int do_migrate_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, const nodemask_t *from,
>>>>
>>
>