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Michal Hocko a85009c377 mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full pfn range
Patch series "few memory offlining enhancements".

I have been chasing memory offlining not making progress recently.  On the
way I have noticed few weird decisions in the code.  The migration itself
is restricted without a reasonable justification and the retry loop around
the migration is quite messy.  This is addressed by patch 1 and patch 2.

Patch 3 is targeting on the faultaround code which has been a hot
candidate for the initial issue reported upstream [2] and that I am
debugging internally.  It turned out to be not the main contributor in the
end but I believe we should address it regardless.  See the patch
description for more details.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120134323.13007-1-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181114070909.GB2653@MiWiFi-R3L-srv

This patch (of 3):

do_migrate_range has been limiting the number of pages to migrate to 256
for some reason which is not documented.  Even if the limit made some
sense back then when it was introduced it doesn't really serve a good
purpose these days.  If the range contains huge pages then we break out of
the loop too early and go through LRU and pcp caches draining and
scan_movable_pages is quite suboptimal.

The only reason to limit the number of pages I can think of is to reduce
the potential time to react on the fatal signal.  But even then the number
of pages is a questionable metric because even a single page migration
might block in a non-killable state (e.g.  __unmap_and_move).

Remove the limit and offline the full requested range (this is one
memblock worth of pages with the current code).  Should we ever get a
report that offlining takes too long to react on fatal signal then we
should rather fix the core migration to use killable waits and bailout
on a signal.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211142741.2607-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211142741.2607-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
arch lib/ioremap: ensure break-before-make is used for huge p4d mappings 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
block block: Fix null_blk_zoned creation failure with small number of zones 2018-12-11 16:19:38 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-12-27 13:53:32 -08:00
Documentation mm, proc: report PR_SET_THP_DISABLE in proc 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
drivers mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end callback 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs mm, proc: report PR_SET_THP_DISABLE in proc 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
include mm, thp, proc: report THP eligibility for each vma 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
init debugobjects: call debug_objects_mem_init eariler 2018-12-28 12:11:45 -08:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end calls v2 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
lib lib/ioremap: ensure break-before-make is used for huge p4d mappings 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm, memory_hotplug: try to migrate full pfn range 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
net mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-12-27 13:04:52 -08:00
scripts scripts/tags.sh: add more declarations 2018-12-28 12:11:44 -08:00
security mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
sound xen: features and fixes for 4.21 2018-12-26 11:35:07 -08:00
tools tools/vm/page-types.c: fix "kpagecount returned fewer pages than expected" failures 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end callback 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap Merge tag 'nand/for-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd into mtd/next 2018-12-18 19:59:16 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-12-27 13:53:32 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20 2018-12-23 15:55:59 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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