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Is not that a problem? >>>> >>>> The task doing the alloc_contig_range() will likely not be the same task as >>>> the one that originally allocated the page, so its policy would be >>>> different, no? So even with __GFP_HARDWALL we might be already migrating >>>> outside the original tasks's constraint? Am I missing something? >>> >>> Yes, that is right, I thought we derive the policy from the old page >>> somehow when migrating it, but reading the code does not seem to be the >>> case. >>> >>> Looking at prepare_alloc_pages(), if !ac->nodemask, which would be the >>> case here, we would get the policy from the current task >>> (alloc_contig_range()) when cpusets are enabled. >>> >>> So yes, I am a bit puzzled why __GFP_HARDWALL was chosen in the first >>> place. >> >> I suspect because "GFP_USER" felt like the appropriate thing to do. > > Looking back at when the whole contiguous allocator patchset was posted, > it seems that it kinda copied what memory-offline code was doing, which > was migrating pages with GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE (hotremove_migrate_alloc()). > > Then, the HIGHMEM modifier was dropped due to HIGHMEM restrictions on > some systems, ending up with GFP_USER. Looking at some other migration_target_control users, some of them also shouldn't be setting GFP_USER->HARDWALL either I think. Essentially, whenever we are migrating a page that is not guaranteed to be "ours" in the context of the caller. mm/damon/paddr.c:__damon_pa_migrate_folio_list() for example, which obtained the addresses by scanning a chunk of physical address space. For others it's less clear: soft_offline_in_use_page() may be called either using madvise() from process context, but also using sysfs using a PFN. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb