Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] mm/migration: return errno when isolate_huge_page failed

[Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>]

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 04:18:21PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> We might fail to isolate huge page due to e.g. the page is under migration
> which cleared HPageMigratable. We should return errno in this case rather
> than always return 1 which could confuse the user, i.e. the caller might
> think all of the memory is migrated while the hugetlb page is left behind.
> We make the prototype of isolate_huge_page consistent with isolate_lru_page
> as suggested by Huang Ying and rename isolate_huge_page to isolate_hugetlb
> as suggested by Muchun to improve the readability.
> 
> Fixes: e8db67eb0ded ("mm: migrate: move_pages() supports thp migration")
> Suggested-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>

Looks good to me, one thing below though:

> ---
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h |  6 +++---
>  mm/gup.c                |  2 +-
>  mm/hugetlb.c            | 11 +++++------
>  mm/memory-failure.c     |  2 +-
>  mm/mempolicy.c          |  2 +-
>  mm/migrate.c            |  5 +++--
>  6 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
...
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1627,8 +1627,9 @@ static int add_page_for_migration(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>  
>  	if (PageHuge(page)) {
>  		if (PageHead(page)) {
> -			isolate_huge_page(page, pagelist);
> -			err = 1;
> +			err = isolate_hugetlb(page, pagelist);
> +			if (!err)
> +				err = 1;
>  		}

We used to always return 1 which means page has been queued for migration, as we
did not check isolate_huge_page() return value.
Now, we either return 1 or 0 depending on isolate_hugetlb(). 
I guess that was fine because in the end, if isolate_huge_page() failed,
the page just does not get added to 'pagelist', right? So, it is just
confusing for the user because he might not get an error so he thinks
the page will be migrated, and yet will not?


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Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs