+ mm-when-migrate_pages-returns-0-all-pages-must-have-been-released.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     mm: when migrate_pages returns 0, all pages must have been released
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-when-migrate_pages-returns-0-all-pages-must-have-been-released.patch

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Subject: mm: when migrate_pages returns 0, all pages must have been released
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>

In some cases migrate_pages could return zero while still leaving a few
pages in the pagelist (and some caller wouldn't notice it has to call
putback_lru_pages after commit cf608ac19c9 ("mm: compaction: fix
COMPACTPAGEFAILED counting")).

Add one missing putback_lru_pages not added by commit cf608ac19c95 ("mm:
compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED counting").

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/memory-failure.c |    1 +
 mm/migrate.c        |    3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/memory-failure.c~mm-when-migrate_pages-returns-0-all-pages-must-have-been-released mm/memory-failure.c
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-when-migrate_pages-returns-0-all-pages-must-have-been-released
+++ a/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1419,6 +1419,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page,
 		ret = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL,
 								0, true);
 		if (ret) {
+			putback_lru_pages(&pagelist);
 			pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: migration failed %d, type %lx\n",
 				pfn, ret, page->flags);
 			if (ret > 0)
diff -puN mm/migrate.c~mm-when-migrate_pages-returns-0-all-pages-must-have-been-released mm/migrate.c
--- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-when-migrate_pages-returns-0-all-pages-must-have-been-released
+++ a/mm/migrate.c
@@ -772,6 +772,7 @@ uncharge:
 unlock:
 	unlock_page(page);
 
+move_newpage:
 	if (rc != -EAGAIN) {
  		/*
  		 * A page that has been migrated has all references
@@ -785,8 +786,6 @@ unlock:
 		putback_lru_page(page);
 	}
 
-move_newpage:
-
 	/*
 	 * Move the new page to the LRU. If migration was not successful
 	 * then this will free the page.
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
mm-when-migrate_pages-returns-0-all-pages-must-have-been-released.patch
mm-migration-fix-page-corruption-during-hugepage-migration.patch
mm-compaction-check-migrate_pagess-return-value-instead-of-list_empty.patch

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