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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:05:14 +0530
From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On 10/15/2015 09:16 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This adds two tests for memory page migration. One for normal page
> migration which works for both 4K or 64K base page size kernel and
> the other one is for 16MB huge page migration which will work both
> 4K or 64K base page sized 16MB huge pages as and when we support
> huge page migration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> - Works for normal page migration on both 64K and 4K base pages
> - Works for 16MB huge page migration (64K) on Aneesh's V2 PTE changes
> 
> +
> +int test_migration(unsigned long length)
> +{
> +	unsigned long failed;
> +	void *addr;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	addr = mmap(MMAP_ADDR, length, MMAP_PROT, MMAP_FLAGS, -1, 0);
> +	if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
> +		perror("mmap() failed");
> +		exit(-1);
> +	}

Will add a mlock() call here as well. Some times soft offline
fails while trying to move a huge chunk of memory on a system
because of swapping. With a mlock() in there the problem gets
resolved.