Re: [PATCH 03/10] soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead ofmigrate_huge_page() (fwd)

[Michal Hocko]

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On Fri 29-03-13 18:24:01, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Fri 29-03-13 10:56:00, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > [...]
> >> > Little bit offtopic:
> >> > Btw. hugetlb migration breaks to charging even before this patchset
> >> > AFAICS. The above put_page should remove the last reference and then it
> >> > will uncharge it but I do not see anything that would charge a new page.
> >> > This is all because regula LRU pages are uncharged when they are
> >> > unmapped. But this a different story not related to this series.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> But when we call that put_page, we would have alreayd move the cgroup
> >> information to the new page. We have
> >> 
> >> 	h_cg = hugetlb_cgroup_from_page(oldhpage);
> >> 	set_hugetlb_cgroup(oldhpage, NULL);
> >> 
> >> 	/* move the h_cg details to new cgroup */
> >> 	set_hugetlb_cgroup(newhpage, h_cg);
> >> 
> >> 
> >> in hugetlb_cgroup_migrate
> >
> > Yes but the res counter charge would be missing for the newpage after
> > put_page
> >
> 
> Moving this to private as i didn't get what you meant here. 
> 
> We unchage hugepage via 
> 
> __put_compound_page -> free_huge_page -> hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_page
> 
> That does
> 
> 	h_cg = hugetlb_cgroup_from_page(page);
> 	if (unlikely(!h_cg))
> 		return;
> 
> During migrate we do 
> 	set_hugetlb_cgroup(oldhpage, NULL);
> 
> 	/* move the h_cg details to new cgroup */
> 	set_hugetlb_cgroup(newhpage, h_cg);
> 
> So when we do a put_page(oldhpage), we won't be finding any cgroup
> attached to it and hence won't be updating the cgroup res counter value.
> 
> So not sure what you mean by res counter change would be missing for the
> newpage after put_page. I may be missing something here. Can you explain
> ?

Dang! You are right of course. I have missed the !h_cg check in
hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_page. 

Sorry about the confusion. I am so distracted by many issues these
days...

Thanks!

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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