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| author | Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> | 2012-10-08 16:32:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 16:22:46 +0900 |
| commit | 435b405c06119d93333738172b8060b0ed12af41 (patch) | |
| tree | a87f9a493f5c677ab23eeab1eab2e45caeb79bc3 /mm/page_isolation.c | |
| parent | 41d575ad4a511b71a4a41c8313004212f5c229b1 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-435b405c06119d93333738172b8060b0ed12af41.tar.gz lwn-435b405c06119d93333738172b8060b0ed12af41.zip | |
memory-hotplug: fix pages missed by race rather than failing
If race between allocation and isolation in memory-hotplug offline
happens, some pages could be in MIGRATE_MOVABLE of free_list although the
pageblock's migratetype of the page is MIGRATE_ISOLATE.
The race could be detected by get_freepage_migratetype in
__test_page_isolated_in_pageblock. If it is detected, now EBUSY gets
bubbled all the way up and the hotplug operations fails.
But better idea is instead of returning and failing memory-hotremove, move
the free page to the correct list at the time it is detected. It could
enhance memory-hotremove operation success ratio although the race is
really rare.
Suggested by Mel Gorman.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_isolation.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_isolation.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_isolation.c b/mm/page_isolation.c index 6744235d2d0e..5f34a9053ce0 100644 --- a/mm/page_isolation.c +++ b/mm/page_isolation.c @@ -201,8 +201,20 @@ __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long end_pfn) } page = pfn_to_page(pfn); if (PageBuddy(page)) { - if (get_freepage_migratetype(page) != MIGRATE_ISOLATE) - break; + /* + * If race between isolatation and allocation happens, + * some free pages could be in MIGRATE_MOVABLE list + * although pageblock's migratation type of the page + * is MIGRATE_ISOLATE. Catch it and move the page into + * MIGRATE_ISOLATE list. + */ + if (get_freepage_migratetype(page) != MIGRATE_ISOLATE) { + struct page *end_page; + + end_page = page + (1 << page_order(page)) - 1; + move_freepages(page_zone(page), page, end_page, + MIGRATE_ISOLATE); + } pfn += 1 << page_order(page); } else if (page_count(page) == 0 && |