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authorAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-07-10 15:47:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-10 16:32:30 -0700
commitc3114a84f7f96c9d5c73c8bfa7e21ff42fda97e2 (patch)
treedc4ccb50cd7cc3498137147af22c91e23c3d0b61 /mm/hugetlb.c
parentb37ff71cc626a0c1b5e098ff9a0b723815f6aaeb (diff)
downloadlinux-c3114a84f7f96c9d5c73c8bfa7e21ff42fda97e2.tar.bz2
mm: hugetlb: soft-offline: dissolve source hugepage after successful migration
Currently hugepage migrated by soft-offline (i.e. due to correctable memory errors) is contained as a hugepage, which means many non-error pages in it are unreusable, i.e. wasted. This patch solves this issue by dissolving source hugepages into buddy. As done in previous patch, PageHWPoison is set only on a head page of the error hugepage. Then in dissoliving we move the PageHWPoison flag to the raw error page so that all healthy subpages return back to buddy. [arnd@arndb.de: fix warnings: replace some macros with inline functions] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170609102544.2947326-1-arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496305019-5493-5-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 41a1b48cefbf..b2d44363837a 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ static int free_pool_huge_page(struct hstate *h, nodemask_t *nodes_allowed,
* number of free hugepages would be reduced below the number of reserved
* hugepages.
*/
-static int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page)
+int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page)
{
int rc = 0;
@@ -1472,6 +1472,14 @@ static int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page)
rc = -EBUSY;
goto out;
}
+ /*
+ * Move PageHWPoison flag from head page to the raw error page,
+ * which makes any subpages rather than the error page reusable.
+ */
+ if (PageHWPoison(head) && page != head) {
+ SetPageHWPoison(page);
+ ClearPageHWPoison(head);
+ }
list_del(&head->lru);
h->free_huge_pages--;
h->free_huge_pages_node[nid]--;