On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 05:51:16PM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> madvise(MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) often returns -EBUSY when calling soft offline
> for hugepages with overcommitting enabled. That was caused by the suboptimal
> code in current soft-offline code. See the following part:
>
> ret = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, NULL, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL,
> MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_MEMORY_FAILURE);
> if (ret) {
> ...
> } else {
> /*
> * We set PG_hwpoison only when the migration source hugepage
> * was successfully dissolved, because otherwise hwpoisoned
> * hugepage remains on free hugepage list, then userspace will
> * find it as SIGBUS by allocation failure. That's not expected
> * in soft-offlining.
> */
> ret = dissolve_free_huge_page(page);
> if (!ret) {
> if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page))
> num_poisoned_pages_inc();
> }
> }
> return ret;
Hi Naoya,
just a nit:
>
> Here dissolve_free_huge_page() returns -EBUSY if the migration source page
> was freed into buddy in migrate_pages(), but even in that case we actually
> has a chance that set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() succeeds. So that means
> current code gives up offlining too early now.
Maybe it is me that I am not really familiar with hugetlb code, but having had
a comment pointing out that the releasing of overcommited hugetlb pages into the
buddy allocator happens in migrate_pages()->put_page()->free_huge_page() would
have been great.
>
> dissolve_free_huge_page() checks that a given hugepage is suitable for
> dissolving, where we should return success for !PageHuge() case because
> the given hugepage is considered as already dissolved.
>
> This change also affects other callers of dissolve_free_huge_page(),
> which are cleaned up together.
>
> Reported-by: Chen, Jerry T <jerry.t.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Chen, Jerry T <jerry.t.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 6bc9b56433b76 ("mm: fix race on soft-offlining")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.19+
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
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