The patch titled Subject: mm: hugetlb: soft-offline: dissolve_free_huge_page() return zero on !PageHuge has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-dissolve_free_huge_page-return-zero-on-pagehuge.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-dissolve_free_huge_page-return-zero-on-pagehuge.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-dissolve_free_huge_page-return-zero-on-pagehuge.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: hugetlb: soft-offline: dissolve_free_huge_page() return zero on !PageHuge madvise(MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) often returns -EBUSY when calling soft offline for hugepages with overcommitting enabled. That was caused by the suboptimal code in current soft-offline code. See the following part: ret = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, NULL, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_MEMORY_FAILURE); if (ret) { ... } else { /* * We set PG_hwpoison only when the migration source hugepage * was successfully dissolved, because otherwise hwpoisoned * hugepage remains on free hugepage list, then userspace will * find it as SIGBUS by allocation failure. That's not expected * in soft-offlining. */ ret = dissolve_free_huge_page(page); if (!ret) { if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page)) num_poisoned_pages_inc(); } } return ret; Here dissolve_free_huge_page() returns -EBUSY if the migration source page was freed into buddy in migrate_pages(), but even in that case we actually has a chance that set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() succeeds. So that means current code gives up offlining too early now. dissolve_free_huge_page() checks that a given hugepage is suitable for dissolving, where we should return success for !PageHuge() case because the given hugepage is considered as already dissolved. This change also affects other callers of dissolve_free_huge_page(), which are cleaned up together. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1560154686-18497-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 6bc9b56433b76 ("mm: fix race on soft-offlining") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Chen, Jerry T <jerry.t.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Chen, Jerry T <jerry.t.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Xishi Qiu <xishi.qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Chen, Jerry T" <jerry.t.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Zhuo, Qiuxu" <qiuxu.zhuo@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.19+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 15 +++++++++------ mm/memory-failure.c | 5 +---- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-dissolve_free_huge_page-return-zero-on-pagehuge +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1519,7 +1519,12 @@ int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page int rc = -EBUSY; spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock); - if (PageHuge(page) && !page_count(page)) { + if (!PageHuge(page)) { + rc = 0; + goto out; + } + + if (!page_count(page)) { struct page *head = compound_head(page); struct hstate *h = page_hstate(head); int nid = page_to_nid(head); @@ -1564,11 +1569,9 @@ int dissolve_free_huge_pages(unsigned lo for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += 1 << minimum_order) { page = pfn_to_page(pfn); - if (PageHuge(page) && !page_count(page)) { - rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page); - if (rc) - break; - } + rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page); + if (rc) + break; } return rc; --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-dissolve_free_huge_page-return-zero-on-pagehuge +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1856,11 +1856,8 @@ static int soft_offline_in_use_page(stru static int soft_offline_free_page(struct page *page) { - int rc = 0; - struct page *head = compound_head(page); + int rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page); - if (PageHuge(head)) - rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page); if (!rc) { if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page)) num_poisoned_pages_inc(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-soft-offline-return-ebusy-if-set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page-fails.patch mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-dissolve_free_huge_page-return-zero-on-pagehuge.patch