On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Commit a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 ('mm: compaction: introduce
> > > sync-light migration for use by compaction') change declaration of
> > > migrate_pages() and migrate_huge_pages().
> > > But, it miss changing argument of migrate_huge_pages()
> > > in soft_offline_huge_page(). In this case, we should call with MIGRATE_SYNC.
> > > So change it.
> > >
> > > Additionally, there is mismatch between type of argument and function
> > > declaration for migrate_pages(). So fix this simple case, too.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Should be cc'd to stable for 3.3+.
>
> Well, why? I'm suspecting a switch from MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT to
> MIGRATE_SYNC will have no discernable effect. Unless it triggers hitherto
> unknkown about deadlocks...
>
> For a -stable backport we should have a description of the end-user
> visible effects of the bug. This changelog lacked such a description.
>
I would put this:
MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT will not aggressively attempt to defragment memory when
allocating hugepages for migration with MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT, such as not
defragmenting dirty pages, so MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE and
/sys/devices/system/memory/soft_offline_page would be significantly
less successful without this patch.
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