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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/7] mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support()
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:17:32PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>
> > We should remove the page from the list if we fail without ENOSYS,
> > since migrate_pages() consider error cases except -ENOMEM and -EAGAIN
> > as permanent failure and it assumes that the page would be removed from
> > the list. Without this patch, we could overcount number of failure.
>
> Ok what does the patch do about this? I dont see any modifications. Remove
> this part of the description?

Description is slightly wrong.
Following is correct one.

"We should remove the page from the list if we fail *with* ENOSYS,"

And this patch do this by adding putback_active_hugepage(hpage)
on ENOSYS case.

>
> > In addition, we should put back the new hugepage if
> > !hugepage_migration_support(). If not, we would leak hugepage memory.
>
> Ok looks like that is fixed by this patch.
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

Thanks.


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