Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: hwpoison: don't drop slab caches for offlining non-LRU page

[HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 01:24:25PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 12:38 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 11:09:08AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > > But the most disappointing thing is all the effort doesn't make the page
> > > offline, it just returns:
> > >
> > > soft_offline: 0x1469f2: unknown non LRU page type 5ffff0000000000 ()
> >
> > It's a shame it doesn't call dump_page().  There might be more
> > interesting information somewhere in struct page that would help us
> > figure out what kind of page it was in your environment.  For example,
> > it might be a page table page or a page allocated for vmalloc(), and
> > in both those cases, there are things we might be able to do (we'd
> > certainly be able to figure out that it isn't worth shrinking slab!)
> 
> Yes,  dump_page() could provide more information to us. I could add a
> new patch or just update this patch to call dump_page() if offline is
> failed if the hwpoison maintainer agrees to this as well.

I agree with showing more information in failure case. Thanks for the input.

- Naoya Horiguchi