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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make is_mem_section_removable more conformable with offlining code
    On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:36:49PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
    > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:19:42PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
    > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:22:46PM +0800, Michal Hocko wrote:
    > > > On Sun 22-08-10 08:42:32, Wu Fengguang wrote:
    > > > > Hi Michal,
    > > >
    > > > Hi,
    > > >
    > > > >
    > > > > It helps to explain in changelog/code
    > > > >
    > > > > - in what situation a ZONE_MOVABLE will contain !MIGRATE_MOVABLE
    > > > > pages?
    > > >
    > > > page can be MIGRATE_RESERVE IIUC.
    > >
    > > Yup, it may also be set to MIGRATE_ISOLATE by soft_offline_page().
    >
    > Ah a non-movable page allocation could fall back into the movable
    > zone. See __rmqueue_fallback() and the fallbacks[][] array. So the
    >
    > if (type != MIGRATE_MOVABLE && !pageblock_free(page))
    >
    > check in is_mem_section_removable() is correct. It is
    > set_migratetype_isolate() that should be fixed to use the same check.

    Mel, I'm not familiar with the code, but it seems that in
    __rmqueue_fallback(), set_pageblock_migratetype() is not always called
    after move_freepages_block() successfully moved some pages. Then it's
    possible a MIGRATE_MOVABLE page block will end up containing
    non-movable pages?

    Thanks,
    Fengguang


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