We are not able to migrate THPs. It means it's not enough to split only PMD on migration -- we need to split compound page under it too. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mempolicy.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 8102f30a3895..8f128379172e 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -489,14 +489,31 @@ static int queue_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, struct page *page; struct queue_pages *qp = walk->private; unsigned long flags = qp->flags; - int nid; + int nid, ret; pte_t *pte; spinlock_t *ptl; - split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr); - if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd)) - return 0; + if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { + ptl = pmd_lock(walk->mm, pmd); + if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { + page = pmd_page(*pmd); + if (is_huge_zero_page(page)) { + spin_unlock(ptl); + split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr); + } else { + get_page(page); + spin_unlock(ptl); + lock_page(page); + ret = split_huge_page(page); + unlock_page(page); + put_page(page); + if (ret) + return 0; + } + } + } +retry: pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) { if (!pte_present(*pte)) @@ -513,6 +530,18 @@ static int queue_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, nid = page_to_nid(page); if (node_isset(nid, *qp->nmask) == !!(flags & MPOL_MF_INVERT)) continue; + if (PageTail(page) && PageAnon(page)) { + get_page(page); + pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl); + lock_page(page); + ret = split_huge_page(page); + unlock_page(page); + put_page(page); + /* Failed to split -- skip. */ + if (ret) + continue; + goto retry; + } if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL)) migrate_page_add(page, qp->pagelist, flags); -- 2.5.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>