Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: memory-failure: kill __soft_offline_page()

From: HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
Date: Tue Aug 30 2022 - 03:15:27 EST


On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:34:02AM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> Squash the __soft_offline_page() into soft_offline_in_use_page() and
> kill __soft_offline_page().
>
> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memory-failure.c | 24 +++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 1a7d6548ccb2..5b368124956d 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -2432,11 +2432,11 @@ static bool isolate_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *pagelist)
> }
>
> /*
> - * __soft_offline_page handles hugetlb-pages and non-hugetlb pages.
> + * soft_offline_in_use_page handles hugetlb-pages and non-hugetlb pages.
> * If the page is a non-dirty unmapped page-cache page, it simply invalidates.
> * If the page is mapped, it migrates the contents over.
> */
> -static int __soft_offline_page(struct page *page)
> +static int soft_offline_in_use_page(struct page *page)
> {
> long ret = 0;
> unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> @@ -2449,6 +2449,13 @@ static int __soft_offline_page(struct page *page)
> .gfp_mask = GFP_USER | __GFP_MOVABLE | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL,
> };
>
> + if (!huge && PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
> + if (try_to_split_thp_page(page)) {
> + pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: thp split failed\n", pfn);
> + return -EBUSY;
> + }

I've found that this change causes a regression. After the thp is
successfully split here, hpage no longer points to a proper page.
So hpage should be updated to point to the raw error page.

+ hpage = page;

Could you update the patch?

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi