On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:41:42PM -0500, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:41:42 -0500
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
> To: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>, Mel Gorman <m...@csn.ul.ie>,
> Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>, Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org>,
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH 3/9] soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead of
> migrate_huge_page()
>
> Currently migrate_huge_page() takes a pointer to a hugepage to be
> migrated as an argument, instead of taking a pointer to the list of
> hugepages to be migrated. This behavior was introduced in commit
> 189ebff28 ("hugetlb: simplify migrate_huge_page()"), and was OK
> because until now hugepage migration is enabled only for soft-offlining
> which takes only one hugepage in a single call.
>
> But the situation will change in the later patches in this series
> which enable other users of page migration to support hugepage migration.
> They can kick migration for both of normal pages and hugepages
> in a single call, so we need to go back to original implementation
> of using linked lists to collect the hugepages to be migrated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>
> ---
> mm/memory-failure.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
> mm/migrate.c | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git v3.8.orig/mm/memory-failure.c v3.8/mm/memory-failure.c
> index bc126f6..01e4676 100644
> --- v3.8.orig/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ v3.8/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1467,6 +1467,7 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page,
> int flags)
> int ret;
> unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> struct page *hpage = compound_head(page);
> + LIST_HEAD(pagelist);
>
> /* Synchronized using the page lock with memory_failure() */
> lock_page(hpage);
> @@ -1479,13 +1480,24 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page,
> int flags)
> unlock_page(hpage);
>
> /* Keep page count to indicate a given hugepage is isolated. */
> - ret = migrate_huge_page(hpage, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, false,
> - MIGRATE_SYNC);
> - put_page(hpage);
> + list_move(&hpage->lru, &pagelist);
> + ret = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, false,
> + MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_MEMORY_FAILURE);
> if (ret) {
> pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: migration failed %d, type %lx\n",
> pfn, ret, page->flags);
> - return ret;
> + /*
> + * We know that soft_offline_huge_page() tries to migrate
> + * only one hugepage pointed to by hpage, so we need not
> + * run through the pagelist here.
> + */
> + putback_active_hugepage(hpage);
> + if (ret > 0)
> + ret = -EIO;
> + } else {
> + set_page_hwpoison_huge_page(hpage);
> + dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage);
> + atomic_long_add(1<<compound_trans_order(hpage), &mce_bad_pages);mce_bad_pages has been substituted by num_poisoned_pages. [...]
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