From: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: migrate: don't split THP for misplaced NUMA page The old behavior didn't split THP if migration is failed due to lack of memory on the target node. But the THP migration does split THP, so keep the old behavior for misplaced NUMA page migration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210518200801.7413-6-shy828301@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/migrate.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-migrate-dont-split-thp-for-misplaced-numa-page +++ a/mm/migrate.c @@ -1423,6 +1423,7 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from int swapwrite = current->flags & PF_SWAPWRITE; int rc, nr_subpages; LIST_HEAD(ret_pages); + bool nosplit = (reason == MR_NUMA_MISPLACED); trace_mm_migrate_pages_start(mode, reason); @@ -1494,8 +1495,9 @@ retry: /* * When memory is low, don't bother to try to migrate * other pages, just exit. + * THP NUMA faulting doesn't split THP to retry. */ - if (is_thp) { + if (is_thp && !nosplit) { if (!try_split_thp(page, &page2, from)) { nr_thp_split++; goto retry; _