On 12/20/18 9:49 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
On 19/12/2018 14:40, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
This helper does a get_user_pages_fast and if it find pages in the CMA area
it will try to migrate them before taking page reference. This makes sure that
we don't keep non-movable pages (due to page reference count) in the CMA area.
Not able to move pages out of CMA area result in CMA allocation failures.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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+ * We did migrate all the pages, Try to get the page references again
+ * migrating any new CMA pages which we failed to isolate earlier.
+ */
+ drain_allow = true;
+ goto get_user_again;
So it is possible to have pages pinned, then successfully migrated
(migrate_pages() returned 0), then pinned again, then some pages may end
up in CMA again and migrate again and nothing seems to prevent this loop
from being endless. What do I miss?
pages used as target page for migration won't be allocated from CMA region.
-aneesh
