[PATCH] mm/memory-failure: not select MEMORY_ISOLATION

[PATCH] mm/memory-failure: not select MEMORY_ISOLATION

[Xie Yuanbin]

We added that "select MEMORY_ISOLATION" in commit ee6f509c3274 ("mm:
factor out memory isolate functions").
However, in commit add05cecef80 ("mm: soft-offline: don't free target
page in successful page migration") we remove the need for it,
where we removed the calls to set_migratetype_isolate() etc.

What CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE soft-offline support wants is migrate_pages()
support. But that comes with CONFIG_MIGRATION.
And isolate_folio_to_list() has nothing to do with CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION.

Therefore, we can remove "select MEMORY_ISOLATION" of MEMORY_FAILURE.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xie Yuanbin <xieyuanbin1@huawei.com>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 034a1662d8c1..0e26f4fc8717 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -742,21 +742,20 @@ config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
 	  This value can be changed after boot using the
 	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
 
 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
 	bool
 
 config MEMORY_FAILURE
 	depends on MMU
 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
 	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
-	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
 	select RAS
 	help
 	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
 	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
 	  even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
 	  special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
 
 config HWPOISON_INJECT
 	tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
 	depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS
-- 
2.48.1

Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: not select MEMORY_ISOLATION

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 22/09/25 8:06 PM, Xie Yuanbin wrote:
> We added that "select MEMORY_ISOLATION" in commit ee6f509c3274 ("mm:
> factor out memory isolate functions").
> However, in commit add05cecef80 ("mm: soft-offline: don't free target
> page in successful page migration") we remove the need for it,
> where we removed the calls to set_migratetype_isolate() etc.
> 
> What CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE soft-offline support wants is migrate_pages()
> support. But that comes with CONFIG_MIGRATION.
> And isolate_folio_to_list() has nothing to do with CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION.
> 
> Therefore, we can remove "select MEMORY_ISOLATION" of MEMORY_FAILURE.
> 
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xie Yuanbin <xieyuanbin1@huawei.com>
> ---
>  mm/Kconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 034a1662d8c1..0e26f4fc8717 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -742,21 +742,20 @@ config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
>  	  This value can be changed after boot using the
>  	  /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable.
>  
>  config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
>  	bool
>  
>  config MEMORY_FAILURE
>  	depends on MMU
>  	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE
>  	bool "Enable recovery from hardware memory errors"
> -	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
>  	select RAS
>  	help
>  	  Enables code to recover from some memory failures on systems
>  	  with MCA recovery. This allows a system to continue running
>  	  even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
>  	  special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
>  
>  config HWPOISON_INJECT
>  	tristate "HWPoison pages injector"
>  	depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL && PROC_FS

MEMORY_FAILURE does not need MEMORY_ISOLATION to be selected
(and built) in order to be built independently.

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure: not select MEMORY_ISOLATION

[Miaohe Lin]

On 2025/9/22 22:36, Xie Yuanbin wrote:
> We added that "select MEMORY_ISOLATION" in commit ee6f509c3274 ("mm:
> factor out memory isolate functions").
> However, in commit add05cecef80 ("mm: soft-offline: don't free target
> page in successful page migration") we remove the need for it,
> where we removed the calls to set_migratetype_isolate() etc.
> 
> What CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE soft-offline support wants is migrate_pages()
> support. But that comes with CONFIG_MIGRATION.
> And isolate_folio_to_list() has nothing to do with CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION.
> 
> Therefore, we can remove "select MEMORY_ISOLATION" of MEMORY_FAILURE.
> 
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xie Yuanbin <xieyuanbin1@huawei.com>

Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>

Thanks.
.