memory-hotplug: fix pages missed by race rather than failing
If race between allocation and isolation in memory-hotplug offline
happens, some pages could be in MIGRATE_MOVABLE of free_list although the
pageblock's migratetype of the page is MIGRATE_ISOLATE.
The race could be detected by get_freepage_migratetype in
__test_page_isolated_in_pageblock. If it is detected, now EBUSY gets
bubbled all the way up and the hotplug operations fails.
But better idea is instead of returning and failing memory-hotremove, move
the free page to the correct list at the time it is detected. It could
enhance memory-hotremove operation success ratio although the race is
really rare.
Suggested by Mel Gorman.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/page-isolation.h b/include/linux/page-isolation.h
index 105077a..fca8c0a 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-isolation.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-isolation.h
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
void set_pageblock_migratetype(struct page *page, int migratetype);
int move_freepages_block(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
int migratetype);
+int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
+ struct page *start_page, struct page *end_page,
+ int migratetype);
+
/*
* Changes migrate type in [start_pfn, end_pfn) to be MIGRATE_ISOLATE.
* If specified range includes migrate types other than MOVABLE or CMA,
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 94fd283..82f0b2f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@
* Note that start_page and end_pages are not aligned on a pageblock
* boundary. If alignment is required, use move_freepages_block()
*/
-static int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
+int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
struct page *start_page, struct page *end_page,
int migratetype)
{
diff --git a/mm/page_isolation.c b/mm/page_isolation.c
index 6744235..5f34a90 100644
--- a/mm/page_isolation.c
+++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
@@ -201,8 +201,20 @@
}
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
if (PageBuddy(page)) {
- if (get_freepage_migratetype(page) != MIGRATE_ISOLATE)
- break;
+ /*
+ * If race between isolatation and allocation happens,
+ * some free pages could be in MIGRATE_MOVABLE list
+ * although pageblock's migratation type of the page
+ * is MIGRATE_ISOLATE. Catch it and move the page into
+ * MIGRATE_ISOLATE list.
+ */
+ if (get_freepage_migratetype(page) != MIGRATE_ISOLATE) {
+ struct page *end_page;
+
+ end_page = page + (1 << page_order(page)) - 1;
+ move_freepages(page_zone(page), page, end_page,
+ MIGRATE_ISOLATE);
+ }
pfn += 1 << page_order(page);
}
else if (page_count(page) == 0 &&