On Wed 18-04-18 11:07:22, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 17-04-18 16:09:33, Zi Yan wrote: [...] > > diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c > > index f65dd69e1fd1..32afa4723e7f 100644 > > --- a/mm/migrate.c > > +++ b/mm/migrate.c > > @@ -1619,6 +1619,8 @@ static int do_pages_move(struct mm_struct *mm, nodemask_t task_nodes, > > if (err) > > goto out; > > } > > + /* Move to next page (i+1), after we have saved page status (until i) */ > > + start = i + 1; > > current_node = NUMA_NO_NODE; > > } > > out_flush: > > > > Feel free to check it by yourselves. > > Yes, you are right. I never update start if the last page in the range > fails and so we overwrite the whole [start, i] range. I wish the code > wasn't that ugly and subtle but considering how we can fail in different > ways and that we want to batch as much as possible I do not see an easy > way. > > Care to send the patch? I would just drop the comment. Hmm, thinking about it some more. An alternative would be to check for list_empty on the page list. It is a bit larger diff but maybe that would be tiny bit cleaner because there is simply no point to call do_move_pages_to_node on an empty list in the first place. --- diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 507cf9ba21bf..46f93b9ba724 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -1634,12 +1634,14 @@ static int do_pages_move(struct mm_struct *mm, nodemask_t task_nodes, current_node = NUMA_NO_NODE; } out_flush: - /* Make sure we do not overwrite the existing error */ - err1 = do_move_pages_to_node(mm, &pagelist, current_node); - if (!err1) - err1 = store_status(status, start, current_node, i - start); - if (!err) - err = err1; + if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) { + /* Make sure we do not overwrite the existing error */ + err1 = do_move_pages_to_node(mm, &pagelist, current_node); + if (!err1) + err1 = store_status(status, start, current_node, i - start); + if (!err) + err = err1; + } out: return err; } -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs