linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mmotm] mm/vmstat: Add events for PMD based THP migration without split fix

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Message-ID: <f1673e4f-64ca-9cf2-861c-7e8a7deeede1@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 May 2020 06:16:53 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mmotm] mm/vmstat: Add events for PMD based THP migration
 without split fix



On 05/21/2020 07:19 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Fix 5.7-rc6-mm1 page migration crash in unmap_and_move(): when the
> page to be migrated has been freed from under us, that is considered 
> a MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS, but no newpage has been allocated (and I don't
> think it would ever need to be counted as a successful THP migration).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> ---
> Fix to mm-vmstat-add-events-for-pmd-based-thp-migration-without-split.patch
> 
>  mm/migrate.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- 5.7-rc6-mm1/mm/migrate.c	2020-05-20 12:21:56.117693827 -0700
> +++ linux/mm/migrate.c	2020-05-20 15:08:12.319476978 -0700
> @@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ out:
>  	 * we want to retry.
>  	 */
>  	if (rc == MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS) {
> -		if (PageTransHuge(newpage))
> +		if (newpage && PageTransHuge(newpage))
>  			thp_migration_success(true);
>  		put_page(page);
>  		if (reason == MR_MEMORY_FAILURE) {
> 

Thanks Hugh. I am preparing to respin the vmstat patch accommodating some
earlier comments. Wondering if I should also fold these changes here after
adding your signed-off-by ?

- Anshuman