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Some more work for > > Looking forward to that :) :) It's definitely ... challenging. > >> that is needed -- in particular around non-folio page migration and >> memory ballooning drivers -- but let's start by handling PageOffline pages >> that can be skipped during memory offlining differently. >> >> Note that PageOffline is used to mark pages that are logically offline >> in an otherwise online memory block (e.g., 128 MiB). If a memory >> block is offline, the memmap is considered compeltely uninitialized >> and stale (see pfn_to_online_page()). >> >> Let's introduce a PageOffline specific page flag (PG_offline_skippable) >> that for now reuses PG_owner_2. In the memdesc future, it will be one of >> a small number of per-memdesc flags stored alongside the type. >> >> By setting PG_offline_skippable, a driver indicates that it can >> restore the PageOffline state of these specific pages when re-onlining a >> memory block: it knows that these pages are supposed to be PageOffline() >> without the information in the vmemmap, so it can filter them out and >> not expose them to the buddy -> they stay PageOffline(). >> >> While PG_offline_offlineable might be clearer, it is also super >> confusing. Alternatives (PG_offline_sticky?) also don't quite feel right. >> So let's use "skippable" for now. >> >> The flag is not supposed to be used for movable PageOffline pages as >> used for balloon compaction; movable PageOffline() pages can simply be >> migrated during the memory offlining stage, turning the migration >> destination page PageOffline() and turning the migration source page >> into a free buddy page. >> >> Let's convert the single user from our MEM_GOING_OFFLINE approach >> to the new PG_offline_skippable approach: virtio-mem. Fortunately, >> this simplifies the code quite a lot. The only corner case we have to >> take care of is when force-unloading the virtio-mem driver: we have to >> prevent partially-plugged memory blocks from getting offlined by >> clearing PG_offline_skippable again. >> >> What if someone decides to grab a reference on these pages although they >> really shouldn't? After all, we'll now keep the refcount at 1 (until we >> can properly stop using the refcount completely). >> >> Well, less worse things will happen than would currently: currently, >> if someone would grab a reference to these pages, in MEM_GOING_OFFLINE >> we would run into the >> if (WARN_ON(!page_ref_dec_and_test(page))) >> dump_page(page, "fake-offline page referenced"); >> >> And once that unexpected reference would get dropped, we would end up >> freeing that page to the buddy: ouch. >> >> Now, we'll allow for offlining that memory, and when that unexpected >> reference would get dropped, we would not end up freeing that page to >> the buddy. Once we have frozen PageOffline() pages, it will all get a >> lot cleaner. > > Hmm, a question on that later in the code (assuming I identified the right > place). > >> Note that we didn't see the existing WARN_ON so far, because nobody >> should ever be referencing such pages. > > It's mostly a speculative refcount increase from a pfn walker, such as > compaction scanner, that can happen due to its inherent raciness. PFN walkers are in general careful to only try grabbing a reference if the target page is a possible candidate. E.g., compaction checks for LRU or movable non-folio pages before calling folio_get_nontail_page(). KSM uses MEM_GOING_OFFLINE to pause scanning (and thereby folio_try_get()) while memory is getting offlined, so it won't try accessing any page in the trees that might now be stale. > >> An alternative might be to have another callback chain from memory hotplug >> code, where a driver that owns that page could agree to skip the >> PageOffline() page. However, we would have to repeatedly issue these >> callbacks for individual PageOffline() pages, which does not sound >> compelling. As we have spare bits, let's use this simpler approach for >> now. >> >> Acked-by: Zi Yan >> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand > > Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka # page allocator > > I'll leave hotplug to the experts :) > > > >> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c >> index f6482223e28a2..7e4c41e46a911 100644 >> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c >> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c >> @@ -7023,12 +7023,12 @@ unsigned long __offline_isolated_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, >> continue; >> } >> /* >> - * At this point all remaining PageOffline() pages have a >> - * reference count of 0 and can simply be skipped. >> + * At this point all remaining PageOffline() pages must be >> + * "skippable" and have exactly one reference. >> */ >> if (PageOffline(page)) { >> - BUG_ON(page_count(page)); >> - BUG_ON(PageBuddy(page)); >> + WARN_ON_ONCE(!PageOfflineSkippable(page)); >> + WARN_ON_ONCE(page_count(page) != 1); > > So is this the part where an unexpected speculative refcount might be > detected? Should be harmless then as it will then decrease the refcount from > e.g. 2 to 1 and nothing will happen right. Yes, unless it would be taken for a longer time, which is not what usually happens: speculative references are immediately dropped if the target page is of no use. > That's assuming that once we pass __offline_isolated_pages(), the following > actions wont modify the refcount or the struct page won't be zeroed, or > removed completely (vmemmap). Probably something already prevents that... Right, we'd have similar problems also if the refcount would be 0 and someone would do a folio_try_get(), while we are tearing down or poisoning the vmemmap. The idea here is that these folios were PageOffline() already for a while (before even starting memory offlining), so any speculative references from pre-PageOffline times should long be gone. It's still racy, but not more racy than our existing pfn_to_online_page() race, or the race we already had in the old code. Thanks! -- Cheers, David / dhildenb