Re: [PATCH v1] mm: soft-offline: exit with failure for non anonymous thp

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 08 2016 - 15:33:07 EST


On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:24:02 +0900 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently memory_failure() doesn't handle non anonymous thp case, because we
> can hardly expect the error handling to be successful, and it can just hit
> some corner case which results in BUG_ON or something severe like that.
> This is also a case for soft offline code, so let's make it in the same way.
>
> ...
>
> --- v4.4-rc8/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ v4.4-rc8_patched/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1751,9 +1751,11 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
> return -EBUSY;
> }
> if (!PageHuge(page) && PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
> - if (PageAnon(hpage) && unlikely(split_huge_page(hpage))) {
> - pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: failed to split THP\n",
> - pfn);
> + if (!PageAnon(hpage) || unlikely(split_huge_page(hpage))) {
> + if (!PageAnon(hpage))
> + pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: non anonymous thp\n", pfn);
> + else
> + pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: thp split failed\n", pfn);
> if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)
> put_hwpoison_page(page);
> return -EBUSY;

Kirill's
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/thp-mm-split_huge_page-caller-need-to-lock-page.patch
mucks with this code as well. Could you please redo this patch against
linux-next?

Thanks.