[PATCH v3 1/2] mm: migrate: Fix return value if all subpages of THPs are migrated successfully

From: Baolin Wang
Date: Mon Oct 24 2022 - 04:34:45 EST


During THP migration, if THPs are not migrated but they are split and all
subpages are migrated successfully, migrate_pages() will still return the
number of THP pages that were not migrated. This will confuse the callers
of migrate_pages(). For example, the longterm pinning will failed though
all pages are migrated successfully.

Thus we should return 0 to indicate that all pages are migrated in this
case

Fixes: b5bade978e9b ("mm: migrate: fix the return value of migrate_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes from v2:
- Add Fixes tag suggested by Yang Shi and Huang, Ying.
- Drop 'nr_thp_split' validation suggested by Alistair.
- Add reviewed tag from Alistair.
- Update the commit message suggested by Andrew.
Changes from v1:
- Fix the return value of migrate_pages() instead of fixing the
callers' validation.
---
mm/migrate.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 8e5eb6e..2eb16f8 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1582,6 +1582,13 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
*/
list_splice(&ret_pages, from);

+ /*
+ * Return 0 in case all subpages of fail-to-migrate THPs are
+ * migrated successfully.
+ */
+ if (list_empty(from))
+ rc = 0;
+
count_vm_events(PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS, nr_succeeded);
count_vm_events(PGMIGRATE_FAIL, nr_failed_pages);
count_vm_events(THP_MIGRATION_SUCCESS, nr_thp_succeeded);
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1.8.3.1