linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm-unstable 0/8] convert hugepage memory failure functions to folios

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Message-ID: <f7da6134-f55c-e427-6843-9d7c3402c645@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:06:27 -0600
From:   Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>
To:     HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linmiaohe@...wei.com" <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        "willy@...radead.org" <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable 0/8] convert hugepage memory failure functions
 to folios

On 1/13/23 1:03 AM, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 02:46:00PM -0600, Sidhartha Kumar wrote:
>> ============== OVERVIEW ===========================
>> This series contains a 1:1 straightforward page to folio conversion for
>> memory failure functions which deal with huge pages. I renamed a few
>> functions to fit with how other folio operating functions are named.
>> These include:
>>
>> hugetlb_clear_page_hwpoison -> folio_clear_hugetlb_hwpoison
>> free_raw_hwp_pages -> folio_free_raw_hwp
>> __free_raw_hwp_pages -> __folio_free_raw_hwp
>> hugetlb_set_page_hwpoison -> folio_set_hugetlb_hwpoison
>>
>> The goal of this series was to reduce users of the hugetlb specific
>> page flag macros which take in a page so users are protected by
>> the compiler to make sure they are operating on a head page.
>>
>> Sidhartha Kumar (8):
>>    mm/memory-failure: convert __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison() to folios
>>    mm/memory-failure: convert try_memory_failure_hugetlb() to folios
>>    mm/memory-failure: convert hugetlb_clear_page_hwpoison to folios
>>    mm/memory-failure: convert free_raw_hwp_pages() to folios
>>    mm/memory-failure: convert raw_hwp_list_head() to folios
>>    mm/memory-failure: convert __free_raw_hwp_pages() to folios
>>    mm/memory-failure: convert hugetlb_set_page_hwpoison() to folios
>>    mm/memory-failure: convert unpoison_memory() to folios
> 
> Hi Sidhartha,
> 
> I looked through the patchset and all look fine to me.  And I tested the
> patchset with v6.2-rc3 and no new issue is detected (I failed to boot with
> latest mm-unstable, but maybe that should not be caused by your patches).

Thanks for your review and testing.

It looks like the boot failure has been described here: 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Y8FnAwWOxLrfoWTN@casper.infradead.org/T/#u 
and is not caused by this patch series.

Thanks,
Sidhartha Kumar
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
> 
> for the whole series.
> 
> - Naoya Horiguchi