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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,osalvador@suse.de,nao.horiguchi@gmail.com,muchun.song@linux.dev,mhocko@kernel.org,linmiaohe@huawei.com,david@redhat.com,baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] docs-hugetlbpagerst-add-hugetlb-migration-description.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:59:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240426035935.2ECCAC116B1@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)


The quilt patch titled
     Subject: docs: hugetlbpage.rst: add hugetlb migration description
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     docs-hugetlbpagerst-add-hugetlb-migration-description.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

------------------------------------------------------
From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: docs: hugetlbpage.rst: add hugetlb migration description
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 18:13:28 +0800

Add some description of the hugetlb migration strategy.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/63fb16e7a4ebc5cb69ce655af86e29b2d8e9ba34.1709719720.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst~docs-hugetlbpagerst-add-hugetlb-migration-description
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
@@ -376,6 +376,13 @@ Note that the number of overcommit and r
 as we don't know until fault time, when the faulting task's mempolicy is
 applied, from which node the huge page allocation will be attempted.
 
+The hugetlb may be migrated between the per-node hugepages pool in the following
+scenarios: memory offline, memory failure, longterm pinning, syscalls(mbind,
+migrate_pages and move_pages), alloc_contig_range() and alloc_contig_pages().
+Now only memory offline, memory failure and syscalls allow fallbacking to allocate
+a new hugetlb on a different node if the current node is unable to allocate during
+hugetlb migration, that means these 3 cases can break the per-node hugepages pool.
+
 .. _using_huge_pages:
 
 Using Huge Pages
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com are

mm-page_alloc-allowing-mthp-compaction-to-capture-the-freed-page-directly.patch


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