[PATCH v4 1/6] mm: migrate: do not migrate HugeTLB page whose refcount is one

From: Muchun Song
Date: Wed Jan 13 2021 - 00:26:28 EST


All pages isolated for the migration have an elevated reference count
and therefore seeing a reference count equal to 1 means that the last
user of the page has dropped the reference and the page has became
unused and there doesn't make much sense to migrate it anymore. This has
been done for regular pages and this patch does the same for hugetlb
pages. Although the likelyhood of the race is rather small for hugetlb
pages it makes sense the two code paths in sync.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
mm/migrate.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 4385f2fb5d18..a6631c4eb6a6 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1279,6 +1279,12 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_page_t get_new_page,
return -ENOSYS;
}

+ if (page_count(hpage) == 1) {
+ /* page was freed from under us. So we are done. */
+ putback_active_hugepage(hpage);
+ return MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS;
+ }
+
new_hpage = get_new_page(hpage, private);
if (!new_hpage)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.11.0