From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: migratepage failures on reiserfs
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:54:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071030135442.5d33c61c@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193768824.8904.11.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:27:04 -0800
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While testing hotplug memory remove, I ran into this issue. Given a
> range of pages hotplug memory remove tries to migrate those pages.
>
> migrate_pages() keeps failing to migrate pages containing pagecache
> pages for reiserfs files. I noticed that reiserfs doesn't have
> ->migratepage() ops. So, fallback_migrate_page() code tries to
> do try_to_release_page(). try_to_release_page() fails to
> drop_buffers() since b_count == 1. Here is what my debug shows:
>
> migrate pages failed pfn 258111/flags 3f00000000801
> bh c00000000b53f6e0 flags 110029 count 1
>
> Any one know why the b_count == 1 and not getting dropped to zero ?
If these are file data pages, the count is probably elevated as part of
the data=ordered tracking. You can verify this via b_private, or just
mount data=writeback to double check.
-chris
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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: migratepage failures on reiserfs
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:54:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071030135442.5d33c61c@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193768824.8904.11.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:27:04 -0800
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While testing hotplug memory remove, I ran into this issue. Given a
> range of pages hotplug memory remove tries to migrate those pages.
>
> migrate_pages() keeps failing to migrate pages containing pagecache
> pages for reiserfs files. I noticed that reiserfs doesn't have
> ->migratepage() ops. So, fallback_migrate_page() code tries to
> do try_to_release_page(). try_to_release_page() fails to
> drop_buffers() since b_count == 1. Here is what my debug shows:
>
> migrate pages failed pfn 258111/flags 3f00000000801
> bh c00000000b53f6e0 flags 110029 count 1
>
> Any one know why the b_count == 1 and not getting dropped to zero ?
If these are file data pages, the count is probably elevated as part of
the data=ordered tracking. You can verify this via b_private, or just
mount data=writeback to double check.
-chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-30 18:27 migratepage failures on reiserfs Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-30 18:27 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-30 17:54 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2007-10-30 17:54 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-30 21:54 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-30 21:54 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-30 22:58 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-30 22:58 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-30 23:08 ` Badari
2007-10-30 23:08 ` Badari
2007-10-31 0:05 ` Zan Lynx
2007-10-31 16:14 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-31 16:14 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-31 17:40 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-31 17:40 ` Chris Mason
2007-11-01 16:38 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-01 16:38 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-01 15:51 ` Chris Mason
2007-11-01 15:51 ` Chris Mason
2007-11-01 18:10 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-01 18:10 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-02 16:46 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-02 16:46 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-05 10:23 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-05 10:23 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-05 13:40 ` Chris Mason
2007-11-05 13:40 ` Chris Mason
2007-11-05 13:40 ` Chris Mason
2007-11-05 22:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-05 22:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-07 14:56 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-07 14:56 ` Mel Gorman
2007-11-07 15:58 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-07 15:58 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-11-07 15:58 ` Badari Pulavarty
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