Re: [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: Fix has_unmovable_pages for HugePages

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Dec 17 2018 - 10:29:40 EST


On Mon 17-12-18 16:06:51, Oscar Salvador wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index a6e7bfd18cde..18d41e85f672 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -8038,11 +8038,12 @@ bool has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, int count,
> * handle each tail page individually in migration.
> */
> if (PageHuge(page)) {
> + struct page *head = compound_head(page);
>
> - if (!hugepage_migration_supported(page_hstate(page)))
> + if (!hugepage_migration_supported(page_hstate(head)))
> goto unmovable;

OK, this makes sense.

>
> - iter = round_up(iter + 1, 1<<compound_order(page)) - 1;
> + iter = round_up(iter + 1, 1<<compound_order(head)) - 1;

but this less so. You surely do not want to move by the full hugetlb
page when you got a tail page, right? You could skip too much. You have
to consider page - head into the equation.

Btw. the reason we haven't seen before is that a) giga pages are rarely
used and b) normale hugepages should be properly aligned and they do not
span more mem sections. Maybe there is some obscure path to trigger this
for CMA but I do not see it.

> continue;
> }
>
> --
> 2.13.7

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs