[PATCH RCFv2 6/7] mm/memory_hotplug: teach offline_pages() to not try forever

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Mon Apr 30 2018 - 05:43:08 EST


It can easily happen that we get stuck forever trying to offline pages -
e.g. on persistent errors.

Let's add a way to change this behavior and fail fast.

This is interesting if offline_pages() is called from a driver and we
just want to find some block to offline.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c | 2 +-
drivers/base/memory.c | 2 +-
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 8 ++++----
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 14 ++++++++++----
4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
index fc222a0c2ac4..8ce71f7e1558 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static bool memtrace_offline_pages(u32 nid, u64 start_pfn, u64 nr_pages)
walk_memory_range(start_pfn, end_pfn, (void *)MEM_GOING_OFFLINE,
change_memblock_state);

- if (offline_pages(start_pfn, nr_pages)) {
+ if (offline_pages(start_pfn, nr_pages, true)) {
walk_memory_range(start_pfn, end_pfn, (void *)MEM_ONLINE,
change_memblock_state);
return false;
diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index 3b8616551561..c785e4c01b23 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ memory_block_action(struct memory_block *mem, unsigned long action)
ret = online_pages(start_pfn, nr_pages, mem->online_type);
break;
case MEM_OFFLINE:
- ret = offline_pages(start_pfn, nr_pages);
+ ret = offline_pages(start_pfn, nr_pages, true);
break;
default:
WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "%s(%ld, %ld) unknown action: "
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 497e28f5b000..ae53017b54df 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -303,7 +303,8 @@ static inline void pgdat_resize_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat) {}

extern bool is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
extern void try_offline_node(int nid);
-extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
+extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
+ bool retry_forever);
extern void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);

#else
@@ -315,7 +316,8 @@ static inline bool is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn,

static inline void try_offline_node(int nid) {}

-static inline int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
+static inline int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
+ bool retry_forever)
{
return -EINVAL;
}
@@ -333,9 +335,7 @@ extern int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
struct vmem_altmap *altmap, bool want_memblock);
extern void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long nr_pages, struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
-extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
extern bool is_memblock_offlined(struct memory_block *mem);
-extern void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern int sparse_add_one_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
unsigned long start_pfn, struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
extern void sparse_remove_one_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms,
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index d8f127754c2e..c47cc68341fc 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1618,8 +1618,8 @@ static void node_states_clear_node(int node, struct memory_notify *arg)
node_clear_state(node, N_MEMORY);
}

-static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
- unsigned long end_pfn)
+static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
+ bool retry_forever)
{
unsigned long pfn, nr_pages;
long offlined_pages;
@@ -1671,6 +1671,10 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
pfn = scan_movable_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
if (pfn) { /* We have movable pages */
ret = do_migrate_range(pfn, end_pfn);
+ if (ret && !retry_forever) {
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ goto failed_removal;
+ }
goto repeat;
}

@@ -1737,6 +1741,7 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
* offline_pages - offline pages in a given range (that are currently online)
* @start_pfn: start pfn of the memory range
* @nr_pages: the number of pages
+ * @retry_forever: weather to retry (possibly) forever
*
* This function tries to offline the given pages. The alignment/size that
* can be used is given by offline_nr_pages.
@@ -1749,9 +1754,10 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
*
* Must be protected by mem_hotplug_begin() or a device_lock
*/
-int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
+int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
+ bool retry_forever)
{
- return __offline_pages(start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages);
+ return __offline_pages(start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages, retry_forever);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */

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2.14.3