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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mempolicy: do not try to queue pages from !vma_migratable()

From Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] mempolicy: do not try to queue pages from !vma_migratable()
Date 2016-02-01 23:30 +0100
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On Mon,  1 Feb 2016 16:26:09 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Maybe I miss some point, but I don't see a reason why we try to queue
> pages from non migratable VMAs.
> 
> The only case when we can queue pages from such VMA is MPOL_MF_STRICT
> plus MPOL_MF_MOVE or MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL for VMA which has pages on LRU,
> but gfp mask is not sutable for migaration (see mapping_gfp_mask() check
> in vma_migratable()). That's looks like a bug to me.
> 
> Let's filter out non-migratable vma at start of queue_pages_test_walk()
> and go to queue_pages_pte_range() only if MPOL_MF_MOVE or
> MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL flag is set.

Conflicts with
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mempolicy-skip-vm_hugetlb-and-vm_mixedmap-vma-for-lazy-mbind.patch.
I resolved it thusly, please review:

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mempolicy-do-not-try-to-queue-pages-from-vma_migratable
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -548,8 +548,7 @@ retry:
 			goto retry;
 		}
 
-		if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL))
-			migrate_page_add(page, qp->pagelist, flags);
+		migrate_page_add(page, qp->pagelist, flags);
 	}
 	pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
 	cond_resched();
@@ -625,7 +624,7 @@ static int queue_pages_test_walk(unsigne
 	unsigned long endvma = vma->vm_end;
 	unsigned long flags = qp->flags;
 
-	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)
+	if (!vma_migratable(vma))
 		return 1;
 
 	if (endvma > end)
@@ -644,17 +643,15 @@ static int queue_pages_test_walk(unsigne
 
 	if (flags & MPOL_MF_LAZY) {
 		/* Similar to task_numa_work, skip inaccessible VMAs */
-		if (vma_migratable(vma) && !is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) &&
+		if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) &&
 			(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE)) &&
 			!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP))
 			change_prot_numa(vma, start, endvma);
 		return 1;
 	}
 
-	if ((flags & MPOL_MF_STRICT) ||
-	    ((flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL)) &&
-	     vma_migratable(vma)))
-		/* queue pages from current vma */
+	/* queue pages from current vma */
+	if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL))
 		return 0;
 	return 1;
 }
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[PATCH 0/2] Fix another VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page)) on mbind(2) "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-01 14:30 +0100
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      Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: fix bogus VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() in isolate_lru_page() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-01 15:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: fix bogus VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() in isolate_lru_page() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-02-02 14:30 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] mempolicy: do not try to queue pages from !vma_migratable() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-01 14:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] mempolicy: do not try to queue pages from  !vma_migratable() Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-02-01 23:30 +0100

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