Re: [mm PATCH v2 4/6] mm: Do not set reserved flag for hotplug memory

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 3:18 PM Alexander Duyck
<alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The general suspicion at this point is that the setting of the reserved bit
> is not really needed for hotplug memory. In addition the setting of this
> bit results in issues for DAX in that it is not possible to assign the
> region to KVM if the reserved bit is set in each page.
>
> For now we can try just not setting the bit since we suspect it isn't
> adding value in setting it. If at a later time we find that it is needed we
> can come back through and re-add it for the hotplug paths.
>
> Suggested-by: Michael Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c |   11 -----------
>  1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 3603d5444865..e435223e2ddb 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5571,8 +5571,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
>
>                 page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>                 __init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
> -               if (context == MEMMAP_HOTPLUG)
> -                       __SetPageReserved(page);

At a minimum I think we need to do this before removing PageReserved,
to make sure zone_device pages are not tracked in the hibernation
image.

diff --git a/kernel/power/snapshot.c b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
index 3d37c279c090..c0613137d726 100644
--- a/kernel/power/snapshot.c
+++ b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
@@ -1285,6 +1285,9 @@ static struct page *saveable_page(struct zone
*zone, unsigned long pfn)
        if (swsusp_page_is_forbidden(page) || swsusp_page_is_free(page))
                return NULL;

+       if (is_zone_device_page(page))
+               return NULL;
+
        if (PageReserved(page)
            && (!kernel_page_present(page) || pfn_is_nosave(pfn)))
                return NULL;