linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Add a reason for reserved pages in has_unmovable

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Message-ID: <f6487dc1-c962-67aa-131e-2eec4f6ca686@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:49:14 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Add a reason for reserved pages in
 has_unmovable_pages()



On 10/04/2019 01:55 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 03.10.19 14:14, Qian Cai wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 3, 2019, at 8:01 AM, Anshuman Khandual <Anshuman.Khandual@....com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Will something like this be better ?
>>
>> Not really. dump_page() will dump PageCompound information anyway, so it is trivial to figure out if went in that path.
>>
> 
> I agree, I use the dump_page() output frequently to identify PG_reserved
> pages. No need to duplicate that.

Here in this path there is a reserved page which is preventing
offlining a memory section but unfortunately dump_page() does
not print page->flags for a reserved page pinned there possibly
through memblock_reserve() during boot.

__offline_pages()
	start_isolate_page_range()
		set_migratetype_isolate()
			has_unmovable_pages()
				dump_page() 

[   64.920970] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   64.921718] WARNING: CPU: 16 PID: 1116 at mm/page_alloc.c:8298 has_unmovable_pages+0x274/0x2a8
[   64.923110] Modules linked in:
[   64.923634] CPU: 16 PID: 1116 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.5.0-rc6-00006-gca544f2a11ae-dirty #281
[   64.925102] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[   64.925905] pstate: 60400085 (nZCv daIf +PAN -UAO)
[   64.926742] pc : has_unmovable_pages+0x274/0x2a8
[   64.927554] lr : has_unmovable_pages+0x298/0x2a8
[   64.928359] sp : ffff800014fd3a00
[   64.928944] x29: ffff800014fd3a00 x28: fffffe0017640000 
[   64.929875] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: ffff0005fcfcda00 
[   64.930810] x25: 0000000000640000 x24: 0000000000000003 
[   64.931736] x23: 0000000019840000 x22: 0000000000001380 
[   64.932667] x21: ffff800011259000 x20: ffff0005fcfcda00 
[   64.933588] x19: 0000000000661000 x18: 0000000000000010 
[   64.934514] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 
[   64.935454] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: ffff8000118498c8 
[   64.936377] x13: ffff800094fd3797 x12: ffff800014fd379f 
[   64.937304] x11: ffff800011861000 x10: ffff800014fd3720 
[   64.938226] x9 : 00000000ffffffd0 x8 : ffff8000106a60d0 
[   64.939156] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff0005fc6261b0 
[   64.940078] x5 : ffff0005fc6261b0 x4 : 0000000000000000 
[   64.941003] x3 : ffff0005fc62cf80 x2 : ffffffffffffec80 
[   64.941927] x1 : ffff800011141b58 x0 : ffff0005fcfcda00 
[   64.942857] Call trace:
[   64.943298]  has_unmovable_pages+0x274/0x2a8
[   64.944056]  start_isolate_page_range+0x258/0x360
[   64.944879]  __offline_pages+0xf4/0x9e8
[   64.945554]  offline_pages+0x10/0x18
[   64.946189]  memory_block_action+0x40/0x1a0
[   64.946929]  memory_subsys_offline+0x4c/0x78
[   64.947679]  device_offline+0x98/0xc8
[   64.948328]  unprobe_store+0xa8/0x158
[   64.948976]  dev_attr_store+0x14/0x28
[   64.949628]  sysfs_kf_write+0x40/0x50
[   64.950273]  kernfs_fop_write+0x108/0x218
[   64.950983]  __vfs_write+0x18/0x40
[   64.951592]  vfs_write+0xb0/0x1d0
[   64.952175]  ksys_write+0x64/0xe8
[   64.952761]  __arm64_sys_write+0x18/0x20
[   64.953451]  el0_svc_common.constprop.2+0x88/0x150
[   64.954293]  el0_svc_handler+0x20/0x80
[   64.954963]  el0_sync_handler+0x118/0x188
[   64.955669]  el0_sync+0x140/0x180
[   64.956256] ---[ end trace b162b4d1cbea304d ]---
[   64.957063] page:fffffe0017640000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
[   64.958489] raw: 1ffff80000001000 fffffe0017640008 fffffe0017640008 0000000000000000
[   64.959839] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
[   64.961174] page dumped because: unmovable page

The reason is dump_page() does not print page->flags universally
and only does so for KSM, Anon and File pages while excluding
reserved pages at boot. Wondering should not we make printing
page->flags universal ?

- Anshuman