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From: sandeep patil <psandeep.s@gmail.com>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCHv17 0/11] Contiguous Memory Allocator
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:20:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+K6fF6SH6BNoKgwArcqvyav4b=C5SGvymo5LS3akfD_yE_beg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321634598-16859-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski@samsung.com> wrote:
> Welcome everyone once again,

> Please notice that this patch series is aimed to start further
> discussion. There are still few issues that need to be resolved before
> CMA will be really ready. The most hot problem is the issue with movable
> pages that causes migration to fail from time to time. Our investigation
> leads us to the point that these rare pages cannot be migrated because
> there are some pending io operations on them.


I am running a simple test to allocate contiguous regions and write a log on
in a file on sdcard simultaneously. I can reproduce this migration failure 100%
times with it.
when I tracked the pages that failed to migrate, I found them on the
buffer head lru
list with a reference held on the buffer_head in the page, which
causes drop_buffers()
to fail.

So, i guess my question is, until all the migration failures are
tracked down and fixed,
is there a plan to retry the contiguous allocation from a new range in
the CMA region?

~ sandeep

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-18 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-18 16:43 Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 01/11] mm: page_alloc: handle MIGRATE_ISOLATE in free_pcppages_bulk() Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 13:42   ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:23     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:42       ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 02/11] mm: compaction: introduce isolate_{free,migrate}pages_range() Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 14:07   ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:22     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 16:30       ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 16:46         ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 17:20           ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 03/11] mm: mmzone: introduce zone_pfn_same_memmap() Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 14:19   ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:35     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 14:40       ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:51         ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:51           ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 04/11] mm: compaction: export some of the functions Marek Szyprowski
2011-12-12 14:29   ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 14:41     ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 15:40       ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-12 15:46         ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-12-12 16:22         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 05/11] mm: page_alloc: introduce alloc_contig_range() Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 06/11] mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 07/11] mm: page_isolation: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 08/11] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 09/11] X86: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 10/11] ARM: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 11/11] ARM: Samsung: use CMA for 2 memory banks for s5p-mfc device Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-18 21:20 ` sandeep patil [this message]
2011-11-18 21:26   ` [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCHv17 0/11] Contiguous Memory Allocator Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-18 23:30     ` sandeep patil
2011-11-19 18:09       ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-25 16:43 ` [PATCH] mm: cma: hack/workaround for some allocation issues Marek Szyprowski
2011-11-25 21:08   ` Michal Nazarewicz

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