On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 04:54:59PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 21.04.21 04:04, Ding Hui wrote: > > Recently we found there is a lot MemFree left in /proc/meminfo after > > do a lot of pages soft offline. > > > > I think it's incorrect since NR_FREE_PAGES should not contain HWPoison pages. > > After take_page_off_buddy, the page is no longer belong to buddy > > allocator, and will not be used any more, but we maybe missed accounting > > NR_FREE_PAGES in this situation. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ding Hui <dinghui@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > mm/page_alloc.c | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > > index cfc72873961d..8d65b62784d8 100644 > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > > @@ -8947,6 +8947,7 @@ bool take_page_off_buddy(struct page *page) > > del_page_from_free_list(page_head, zone, page_order); > > break_down_buddy_pages(zone, page_head, page, 0, > > page_order, migratetype); > > + __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -1); > > ret = true; > > break; > > } > > > > Should this use __mod_zone_freepage_state() instead? Yes, __mod_zone_freepage_state() looks better to me. And I think that maybe an additional __mod_zone_freepage_state() in unpoison_memory() is necessary to cancel the decrement. I thought of the following, but it doesn't build because get_pfnblock_migratetype() is available only in mm/page_alloc.c, so you might want to add a small exported routine in mm/page_alloc.c and let it called from unpoison_memory(). @@ -1899,8 +1899,12 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn) } if (!get_hwpoison_page(p, flags, 0)) { - if (TestClearPageHWPoison(p)) + if (TestClearPageHWPoison(p)) { + int migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(p, pfn); + num_poisoned_pages_dec(); + __mod_zone_freepage_state(page_zone(p), 1, migratetype); + } unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Software-unpoisoned free page %#lx\n", pfn, &unpoison_rs); return 0; Thanks, Naoya Horiguchi