Re: [PATCH v5 04/14] mm/gup: check for isolation errors

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On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:39:10PM -0500, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> It is still possible that we pin movable CMA pages if there are isolation
> errors and cma_page_list stays empty when we check again.
> 
> Check for isolation errors, and return success only when there are no
> isolation errors, and cma_page_list is empty after checking.
> 
> Because isolation errors are transient, we retry indefinitely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/gup.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

This should have a fixme too, this is a bug.

The patch looks OK, but I keep feeling this logic is all really
overcomplicated...

Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Jason



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