linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] HWPOISON: soft offline rework

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Date:   Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:22:07 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@....pw>, nao.horiguchi@...il.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, mhocko@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        mike.kravetz@...cle.com, tony.luck@...el.com, david@...hat.com,
        aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, zeil@...dex-team.ru,
        naoya.horiguchi@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] HWPOISON: soft offline rework

On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 08:35 +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > Even after applied the compling fix,
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200628065409.GA546944@u2004/
> > 
> > madvise(MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) will fail with EIO with hugetlb where it
> > would succeed without this series. Steps:
> > 
> > # git clone https://github.com/cailca/linux-mm
> > # cd linux-mm; make
> > # ./random 1 (Need at least two NUMA memory nodes)
> >  start: migrate_huge_offline
> > - use NUMA nodes 0,4.
> > - mmap and free 8388608 bytes hugepages on node 0
> > - mmap and free 8388608 bytes hugepages on node 4
> > madvise: Input/output error
> 
> I think I know why.
> It's been a while since I took a look, but I compared the posted
> patchset with my newest patchset I had ready and I saw I made some
> changes with regard of hugetlb pages.
> 
> I will be taking a look, although it might be better to re-post the
> patchset instead of adding a fix on top since the changes are a bit
> substantial.

Yap, I just confirmed this.

Posted version had some flaws wrt. hugetlb pages, that is why I was
working on a v3.
I am rebasing my v3 on top of the mm with the posted patchset reverted.

I expect to post it on Friday.


-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3