[PATCH] mm: page_alloc: dump migrate-failed pages only at -EBUSY

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed May 19 2021 - 17:33:49 EST


alloc_contig_dump_pages aims for helping debugging page migration
failure by page refcount mismatch or something else of page itself
from migration handler function. However, in -ENOMEM case, there is
nothing to get clue from page descriptor information so just
dump pages only when -EBUSY happens.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3100fcb08500..c0a2971dc755 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -8760,7 +8760,8 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(struct compact_control *cc,

lru_cache_enable();
if (ret < 0) {
- alloc_contig_dump_pages(&cc->migratepages);
+ if (ret == -EBUSY)
+ alloc_contig_dump_pages(&cc->migratepages);
putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
return ret;
}
--
2.31.1.751.gd2f1c929bd-goog