On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 02:52:50PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 26-03-13 16:59:40, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com> writes:
> [...]
> > > diff --git v3.9-rc3.orig/mm/memory-failure.c v3.9-rc3/mm/memory-failure.c
> > > index df0694c..4e01082 100644
> > > --- v3.9-rc3.orig/mm/memory-failure.c
> > > +++ v3.9-rc3/mm/memory-failure.c
> > > @@ -1467,6 +1467,7 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page 
> > > *page, int flags)
> > >   int ret;
> > >   unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> > >   struct page *hpage = compound_head(page);
> > > + LIST_HEAD(pagelist);
> > >
> > >   /*
> > >    * This double-check of PageHWPoison is to avoid the race with
> > > @@ -1482,12 +1483,20 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page 
> > > *page, int flags)
> > >   unlock_page(hpage);
> > >
> > >   /* Keep page count to indicate a given hugepage is isolated. */
> > > - ret = migrate_huge_page(hpage, new_page, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL,
> > > -                         MIGRATE_SYNC);
> > > - put_page(hpage);
> > > + list_move(&hpage->lru, &pagelist);
> > 
> > we use hpage->lru to add the hpage to h->hugepage_activelist. This will
> > break a hugetlb cgroup removal isn't it ?
> 
> This particular part will not break removal because
> hugetlb_cgroup_css_offline loops until hugetlb_cgroup_have_usage is 0.

Right.

> Little bit offtopic:
> Btw. hugetlb migration breaks to charging even before this patchset
> AFAICS. The above put_page should remove the last reference and then it
> will uncharge it but I do not see anything that would charge a new page.
> This is all because regula LRU pages are uncharged when they are
> unmapped. But this a different story not related to this series.

It seems to me that alloc_huge_page_node() needs to call
hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup() before dequeuing a new hugepage.

Thanks,
Naoya
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