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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 2/2] HWPOISON: soft offlining for non-lru movable page
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Hi, Michal,
Sorry for late reply.

On 01/26/2017 05:27 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 25-01-17 23:05:38, ysxie@foxmail.com wrote:
>> From: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>
>>
>> This patch is to extends soft offlining framework to support
>> non-lru page, which already support migration after
>> commit bda807d44454 ("mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page
>> migration")
>>
>> When memory corrected errors occur on a non-lru movable page,
>> we can choose to stop using it by migrating data onto another
>> page and disable the original (maybe half-broken) one.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>
>> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
>> Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
>> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
>> CC: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
>> ---
>> mm/memory-failure.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
>> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> index f283c7e..56e39f8 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> @@ -1527,7 +1527,8 @@ static int get_any_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>> {
>> int ret = __get_any_page(page, pfn, flags);
>>
>> - if (ret == 1 && !PageHuge(page) && !PageLRU(page)) {
>> + if (ret == 1 && !PageHuge(page) &&
>> + !PageLRU(page) && !__PageMovable(page)) {
>> /*
>> * Try to free it.
>> */
> Is this sufficient? Not that I am familiar with get_any_page() but
> __get_any_page doesn't seem to be aware of movable pages and neither
> shake_page is.
Sorry,maybe I do not quite get what you mean.
If the page can be migrated, it can skip "shake_page and __get_any_page once more" here,
though it is not a free page. right ?
Please let me know if I miss anything.

>> @@ -1649,7 +1650,10 @@ static int __soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
>> * Try to migrate to a new page instead. migrate.c
>> * handles a large number of cases for us.
>> */
>> - ret = isolate_lru_page(page);
>> + if (PageLRU(page))
>> + ret = isolate_lru_page(page);
>> + else if (!isolate_movable_page(page, ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE))
>> + ret = -EBUSY;
> As pointed out in the previous response isolate_movable_page should
> really have the same return value contract as [__]isolate_lru_page
Yes, I agree with your suggestion. I will rewrite it in later patch if it is suitable.
as I mention before.

Thanks again for your reviewing.

Yisheng Xie
>> /*
>> * Drop page reference which is came from get_any_page()
>> * successful isolate_lru_page() already took another one.



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