From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support()
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:38:25 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131210083825.GB24992@lge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00000142d8263858-5c29199b-77e5-47a5-9db6-2ea6ea7c7fc8-000000@email.amazonses.com>
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:17:32PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>
> > We should remove the page from the list if we fail without ENOSYS,
> > since migrate_pages() consider error cases except -ENOMEM and -EAGAIN
> > as permanent failure and it assumes that the page would be removed from
> > the list. Without this patch, we could overcount number of failure.
>
> Ok what does the patch do about this? I dont see any modifications. Remove
> this part of the description?
Description is slightly wrong.
Following is correct one.
"We should remove the page from the list if we fail *with* ENOSYS,"
And this patch do this by adding putback_active_hugepage(hpage)
on ENOSYS case.
>
> > In addition, we should put back the new hugepage if
> > !hugepage_migration_support(). If not, we would leak hugepage memory.
>
> Ok looks like that is fixed by this patch.
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-10 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 9:10 [PATCH v2 0/7] correct and clean-up migration related stuff Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-09 9:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] mm/migrate: add comment about permanent failure path Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-10 1:42 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-12-09 9:10 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support() Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-09 16:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-10 8:38 ` Joonsoo Kim [this message]
2013-12-10 2:17 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-12-10 8:45 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-10 9:27 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-12-09 9:10 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] mm/mempolicy: correct putback method for isolate pages if failed Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-09 16:41 ` Rafael Aquini
2013-12-10 2:22 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-12-09 9:10 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] mm/migrate: remove putback_lru_pages, fix comment on putback_movable_pages Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-10 2:33 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-12-10 8:51 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-10 9:00 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-09 9:10 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] mm/compaction: respect ignore_skip_hint in update_pageblock_skip Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-10 2:50 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-12-09 9:10 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] mm/migrate: remove unused function, fail_migrate_page() Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-09 16:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-09 17:07 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-12-10 2:36 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-12-09 9:10 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] mm/migrate: remove result argument on page allocation function for migration Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-09 16:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-10 3:22 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-12-11 8:47 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-12-11 16:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-12-12 0:07 ` Joonsoo Kim
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