The patch titled Subject: mm/balloon_compaction: keep ballooned pages away from normal migration path has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-balloon_compaction-keep-ballooned-pages-away-from-normal-migration-path.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/balloon_compaction: keep ballooned pages away from normal migration path Proper testing shows yet another problem in balloon migration: it works only once for each page. balloon_page_movable() check page flags and page_count. In __unmap_and_move page is locked, reference counter is elevated, so balloon_page_movable() _always_ fails here. As result in __unmap_and_move() migration goes to the normal migration path. Balloon ->migratepage() is so special, it returns MIGRATEPAGE_BALLOON_SUCCESS instead of MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS. After that in move_to_new_page() successfully migrated page got NULL into its mapping pointer and loses connectivity with balloon and ability for further migration. It's safe to use __is_movable_balloon_page here: page is isolated and pinned. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: fix CONFIG_BALLOON_COMPACTION=n build] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [v3.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/balloon_compaction.h | 5 +++++ mm/migrate.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/migrate.c~mm-balloon_compaction-keep-ballooned-pages-away-from-normal-migration-path mm/migrate.c --- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-balloon_compaction-keep-ballooned-pages-away-from-normal-migration-path +++ a/mm/migrate.c @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ static int __unmap_and_move(struct page } } - if (unlikely(balloon_page_movable(page))) { + if (unlikely(__is_movable_balloon_page(page))) { /* * A ballooned page does not need any special attention from * physical to virtual reverse mapping procedures. diff -puN include/linux/balloon_compaction.h~mm-balloon_compaction-keep-ballooned-pages-away-from-normal-migration-path include/linux/balloon_compaction.h --- a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h~mm-balloon_compaction-keep-ballooned-pages-away-from-normal-migration-path +++ a/include/linux/balloon_compaction.h @@ -258,6 +258,11 @@ static inline void balloon_page_delete(s list_del(&page->lru); } +static inline bool __is_movable_balloon_page(struct page *page) +{ + return false; +} + static inline bool balloon_page_movable(struct page *page) { return false; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from k.khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxx are include-linux-migrateh-remove-migratepage-define.patch mm-balloon_compaction-isolate-balloon-pages-without-lru_lock.patch mm-introduce-common-page-state-for-ballooned-memory.patch mm-balloon_compaction-use-common-page-ballooning.patch mm-balloon_compaction-general-cleanup.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html