When migration failure in do_migrate_range() and then the scan_movable_pages() will most likely return the same movable pfn. In this case, there is no condition to bail out, they will always run like this: ... [878020.623959] migrating pfn 1727813 failed ret:1 [878020.623960] page:00000000faa9673c refcount:3 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000144ccd79 index:0x14280025 pfn:0x1727813 [878020.623962] memcg:ffffa0ff82d5a000 [878020.623962] aops:def_blk_aops ino:fd00001 [878020.623964] flags: 0x17ffffc000206a(referenced|dirty|active|workingset|private|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) [878020.623966] raw: 0017ffffc000206a ffffb0d14f50fbd8 ffffb0d14f50fbd8 ffffa0ff9c155018 [878020.623967] raw: 0000000014280025 ffffa10327d702d8 00000003ffffffff ffffa0ff82d5a000 [878020.623968] page dumped because: migration failure [878020.626196] migrating pfn 1727813 failed ret:1 [878020.626198] page:00000000faa9673c refcount:3 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000144ccd79 index:0x14280025 pfn:0x1727813 [878020.626200] memcg:ffffa0ff82d5a000 [878020.626200] aops:def_blk_aops ino:fd00001 [878020.626202] flags: 0x17ffffc000206a(referenced|dirty|active|workingset|private|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) [878020.626204] raw: 0017ffffc000206a ffffb0d14f50fbd8 ffffb0d14f50fbd8 ffffa0ff9c155018 [878020.626205] raw: 0000000014280025 ffffa10327d702d8 00000003ffffffff ffffa0ff82d5a000 [878020.626206] page dumped because: migration failure ... Bail out when migration failures reach 3 times. Fixes: bb8965bd82fd ("mm, memory_hotplug: deobfuscate migration part of offlining") Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c index 8e0fa209d533..72dd385b8892 100644 --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -1800,11 +1800,12 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, struct zone *zone, struct memory_group *group) { const unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages; - unsigned long pfn, system_ram_pages = 0; + unsigned long pfn, tmp_pfn, system_ram_pages = 0; const int node = zone_to_nid(zone); unsigned long flags; struct memory_notify arg; char *reason; + int count = 0; int ret; /* @@ -1887,12 +1888,20 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, cond_resched(); + tmp_pfn = pfn; ret = scan_movable_pages(pfn, end_pfn, &pfn); if (!ret) { - /* - * TODO: fatal migration failures should bail - * out - */ + if (pfn == tmp_pfn) + count++; + else + count = 0; + + if (unlikely(count == 3)) { + ret = -EBUSY; + reason = "migration failure"; + goto failed_removal_isolated; + } + do_migrate_range(pfn, end_pfn); } } while (!ret); -- 2.25.1