Re: [PATCH v9] mm: compaction: handle incorrect MIGRATE_UNMOVABLEtype pageblocks

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Mon Jun 04 2012 - 16:22:28 EST


+/*
+ * Returns true if MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE pageblock can be successfully
+ * converted to MIGRATE_MOVABLE type, false otherwise.
+ */
+static bool can_rescue_unmovable_pageblock(struct page *page, bool locked)
+{
+ unsigned long pfn, start_pfn, end_pfn;
+ struct page *start_page, *end_page, *cursor_page;
+
+ pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+ start_pfn = pfn& ~(pageblock_nr_pages - 1);
+ end_pfn = start_pfn + pageblock_nr_pages - 1;
+
+ start_page = pfn_to_page(start_pfn);
+ end_page = pfn_to_page(end_pfn);
+
+ for (cursor_page = start_page, pfn = start_pfn; cursor_page<= end_page;
+ pfn++, cursor_page++) {
+ struct zone *zone = page_zone(start_page);
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ if (!pfn_valid_within(pfn))
+ continue;
+
+ /* Do not deal with pageblocks that overlap zones */
+ if (page_zone(cursor_page) != zone)
+ return false;
+
+ if (!locked)
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+
+ if (PageBuddy(cursor_page)) {
+ int order = page_order(cursor_page);

-/* Returns true if the page is within a block suitable for migration to */
-static bool suitable_migration_target(struct page *page)
+ pfn += (1<< order) - 1;
+ cursor_page += (1<< order) - 1;
+
+ if (!locked)
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
+ continue;
+ } else if (page_count(cursor_page) == 0 ||
+ PageLRU(cursor_page)) {
+ if (!locked)
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (!locked)
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
+
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ return true;
+}

Minchan, are you interest this patch? If yes, can you please rewrite it? This one are
not fixed our pointed issue and can_rescue_unmovable_pageblock() still has plenty bugs.
We can't ack it.

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