From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, memory_hotplug: be more verbose for memory offline failures There is only very limited information printed when the memory offlining fails: [ 1984.506184] rac1 kernel: memory offlining [mem 0x82600000000-0x8267fffffff] failed due to signal backoff This tells us that the failure is triggered by the userspace intervention but it doesn't tell us much more about the underlying reason. It might be that the page migration failes repeatedly and the userspace timeout expires and send a signal or it might be some of the earlier steps (isolation, memory notifier) takes too long. If the migration failes then it would be really helpful to see which page that and its state. The same applies to the isolation phase. If we fail to isolate a page from the allocator then knowing the state of the page would be helpful as well. Dump the page state that fails to get isolated or migrated. This will tell us more about the failure and what to focus on during debugging. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: add missing printk arg] [mhocko@xxxxxxxx: tweak dump_page() `reason' text] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116083020.20260-6-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107101830.17405-6-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <OSalvador@xxxxxxxx> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-memory_hotplug-be-more-verbose-for-memory-offline-failures +++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -1388,10 +1388,8 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn page_is_file_cache(page)); } else { -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM - pr_alert("failed to isolate pfn %lx\n", pfn); + pr_warn("failed to isolate pfn %lx\n", pfn); dump_page(page, "isolation failed"); -#endif put_page(page); /* Because we don't have big zone->lock. we should check this again here. */ @@ -1411,8 +1409,14 @@ do_migrate_range(unsigned long start_pfn /* Allocate a new page from the nearest neighbor node */ ret = migrate_pages(&source, new_node_page, NULL, 0, MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_MEMORY_HOTPLUG); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + list_for_each_entry(page, &source, lru) { + pr_warn("migrating pfn %lx failed ret:%d ", + page_to_pfn(page), ret); + dump_page(page, "migration failure"); + } putback_movable_pages(&source); + } } out: return ret; --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-memory_hotplug-be-more-verbose-for-memory-offline-failures +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -7869,6 +7869,7 @@ bool has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zo return false; unmovable: WARN_ON_ONCE(zone_idx(zone) == ZONE_MOVABLE); + dump_page(pfn_to_page(pfn+iter), "unmovable page"); return true; } _