Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, memory_hotplug: do not fail offlining too early

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 11-10-17 13:17:13, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 10/11/2017 10:13 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 11-10-17 10:04:39, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >> On 10/11/2017 08:51 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> This is really strange! As you write in other email the page is
> >>> reserved. That means that some of the earlier checks 
> >>> 	if (zone_idx(zone) == ZONE_MOVABLE)
> >>> 		return false;
> >>> 	mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
> >>> 	if (mt == MIGRATE_MOVABLE || is_migrate_cma(mt))
> >>
> >> The MIGRATE_MOVABLE check is indeed bogus, because that doesn't
> >> guarantee there are no unmovable pages in the block (CMA block OTOH
> >> should be a guarantee).
> > 
> > OK, thanks for confirmation. I will remove the MIGRATE_MOVABLE check
> > here. Do you think it is worth removing CMA check as well? This is
> > merely an optimization AFAIU because we do not have to check the full
> > pageblockworth of pfns.
> 
> Actually, we should remove the CMA part as well. It's true that
> MIGRATE_CMA does guarantee that the *buddy allocator* won't allocate
> non-MOVABLE pages from the pageblock. But if the memory got allocated as
> an actual CMA allocation (alloc_contig...) it will almost certainly not
> be movable.

That was my suspicious. Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs