linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/memory-failure.c: make non-LRU movable pages unhandlable

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Date:   Sun, 13 Mar 2022 23:43:42 +0000
From:   HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口　直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
CC:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "tony.luck@...el.com" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "bp@...en8.de" <bp@...en8.de>,
        "mike.kravetz@...cle.com" <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        "shy828301@...il.com" <shy828301@...il.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/memory-failure.c: make non-LRU movable pages
 unhandlable

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 03:46:13PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> We can not really handle non-LRU movable pages in memory failure. Typically
> they are balloon, zsmalloc, etc. Assuming we run into a base (4K) non-LRU
> movable page, we could reach as far as identify_page_state(), it should not
> fall into any category except me_unknown. For the non-LRU compound movable
> pages, they could be taken for transhuge pages but it's unexpected to split
> non-LRU  movable pages using split_huge_page_to_list in memory_failure. So
> we could just simply make non-LRU  movable pages unhandlable to avoid these
> possible nasty cases.
> 
> Suggested-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>