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When there are no available hugetlb folios in the >>> free hugetlb pool during the migration of in-use hugetlb folios, new >>> folios >>> are allocated from the buddy system. A temporary state is set on the >>> newly >>> allocated folio. Upon completion of the hugetlb folio migration, the >>> temporary state is transferred from the new folios to the old folios. >>> Normally, when the old folios with the temporary state are freed, it is >>> directly released back to the buddy system. However, due to the deferred >>> freeing of hugetlb pages, the PageBuddy() check fails, ultimately leading >>> to the failure of cma_alloc(). >>> >>> Here is a simplified call trace illustrating the process: >>> cma_alloc() >>>      ->__alloc_contig_migrate_range() // Migrate in-use hugetlb folios >>>          ->unmap_and_move_huge_page() >>>              ->folio_putback_hugetlb() // Free old folios >>>      ->test_pages_isolated() >>>          ->__test_page_isolated_in_pageblock() >>>               ->PageBuddy(page) // Check if the page is in buddy >>> >>> To resolve this issue, we have implemented a function named >>> wait_for_freed_hugetlb_folios(). This function ensures that the hugetlb >>> folios are properly released back to the buddy system after their >>> migration >>> is completed. By invoking wait_for_freed_hugetlb_folios() before calling >>> PageBuddy(), we ensure that PageBuddy() will succeed. >>> >>> Fixes: c77c0a8ac4c52 ("mm/hugetlb: defer freeing of huge pages if in >>> non-task context") >>> Signed-off-by: Ge Yang >>> Cc: >> >> >> >> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand >>> +void wait_for_freed_hugetlb_folios(void) >>> +{ >>> +    flush_work(&free_hpage_work); >> >> BTW, I was wondering if we could optimize out some calls here by sensing >> if there is actually work. >> > for_each_hstate(h) { > if (hugetlb_vmemmap_optimizable(h)) { > flush_work(&free_hpage_work); > break;> } > } > Is this adjustment okay? I think that's better, except that it would still trigger in scenarios where hugetlb is completely unused if CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP is around. Can't we check hpage_freelist? if (llist_empty(&hpage_freelist)) return; flush_work(&free_hpage_work); It should be able to deal with races (we don't care if something is getting added concurrently, only if there is something right now). -- Cheers, David / dhildenb