From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>, Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] mm/memory-failure: Convert memory_failure() to use a folio
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:23:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zhagzux241HSiZ-q@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZhZoEwE7I6l13J-n@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 12:21:07PM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 05:34:29PM -0700, Jane Chu wrote:
> > At this stage, 'p' is not expected to be a large page since a _refcount has
> > been taken, right? So is it reasonable to replace the "if (retry)" block
> > with a VM_BUG_ON warning? otherwise, if 'p' became part of a different
> > large folio, how to recover from here ?
>
> We might have split the THP (if it was part of), but AFAICS
> nothing stops the kernel to coallesce this page again into a new THP via e.g:
> madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) ?
Won't that allocate a _new_ THP rather than coalescing in place?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-10 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-08 19:42 [PATCH v2 00/11] Some cleanups for memory-failure Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] mm/memory-failure: Remove fsdax_pgoff argument from __add_to_kill Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-10 9:09 ` Oscar Salvador
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] mm/memory-failure: Pass addr to __add_to_kill() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-08 22:32 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-10 9:11 ` Oscar Salvador
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] mm: Return the address from page_mapped_in_vma() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-08 22:38 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-10 9:38 ` Oscar Salvador
2024-04-11 2:56 ` Miaohe Lin
2024-04-11 17:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] mm: Make page_mapped_in_vma conditional on CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-08 22:45 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-08 22:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-09 6:35 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-10 9:39 ` Oscar Salvador
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] mm/memory-failure: Convert shake_page() to shake_folio() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-08 22:53 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] mm: Convert hugetlb_page_mapping_lock_write to folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-08 23:09 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-10 9:52 ` Oscar Salvador
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] mm/memory-failure: Convert memory_failure() to use a folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-09 0:34 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-10 10:21 ` Oscar Salvador
2024-04-10 14:23 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2024-04-10 15:30 ` Oscar Salvador
2024-04-10 23:15 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-11 1:27 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-11 1:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-11 9:00 ` Miaohe Lin
2024-04-11 11:23 ` Oscar Salvador
2024-04-11 12:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-12 19:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-12 22:09 ` Oscar Salvador
2024-04-15 18:47 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-16 9:13 ` Miaohe Lin
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] mm/memory-failure: Convert hwpoison_user_mappings to take " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-09 6:15 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] mm/memory-failure: Add some folio conversions to unpoison_memory Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-09 6:17 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] mm/memory-failure: Use folio functions throughout collect_procs() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-09 6:19 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-08 19:42 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] mm/memory-failure: Pass the folio to collect_procs_ksm() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-04-09 6:27 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-09 12:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-09 15:15 ` Jane Chu
2024-04-09 6:28 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] Some cleanups for memory-failure Jane Chu
2024-04-09 12:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
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