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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Thu, 20 Dec 2018 05:22:16 -0000 Received: from b01ledav006.gho.pok.ibm.com (b01ledav006.gho.pok.ibm.com [9.57.199.111]) by b01cxnp23032.gho.pok.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id wBK5MFoa23265486 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 20 Dec 2018 05:22:15 GMT Received: from b01ledav006.gho.pok.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D67AC05E; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 05:22:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from b01ledav006.gho.pok.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6307AC059; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 05:22:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [9.85.68.89] (unknown [9.85.68.89]) by b01ledav006.gho.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 05:22:10 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/3] mm: Add get_user_pages_cma_migrate To: Alexey Kardashevskiy , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Michal Hocko , mpe@ellerman.id.au, paulus@samba.org, David Gibson References: <20181219034047.16305-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> <20181219034047.16305-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:52:09 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18122005-0072-0000-0000-000003DCA6FA X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00010252; HX=3.00000242; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000271; SDB=6.01134316; UDB=6.00582089; IPR=6.00914489; MB=3.00024762; MTD=3.00000008; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2018-12-20 05:22:19 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18122005-0073-0000-0000-00004A829B55 Message-Id: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:, , definitions=2018-12-20_02:, , signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=18 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1812200044 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On 12/20/18 9:49 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > On 19/12/2018 14:40, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >> This helper does a get_user_pages_fast and if it find pages in the CMA area >> it will try to migrate them before taking page reference. This makes sure that >> we don't keep non-movable pages (due to page reference count) in the CMA area. >> Not able to move pages out of CMA area result in CMA allocation failures. >> >> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V > ..... >> + * We did migrate all the pages, Try to get the page references again >> + * migrating any new CMA pages which we failed to isolate earlier. >> + */ >> + drain_allow = true; >> + goto get_user_again; > > > So it is possible to have pages pinned, then successfully migrated > (migrate_pages() returned 0), then pinned again, then some pages may end > up in CMA again and migrate again and nothing seems to prevent this loop > from being endless. What do I miss? > pages used as target page for migration won't be allocated from CMA region. -aneesh