[RFC PATCH 4/5] mm, memory_hotplug: print reason for the offlining failure

[Michal Hocko]

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

The memory offlining failure reporting is inconsistent and insufficient.
Some error paths simply do not report the failure to the log at all.
When we do report there are no details about the reason of the failure
and there are several of them which makes memory offlining failures
hard to debug.

Make sure that the
	memory offlining [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed
message is printed for all failures and also provide a short textual
reason for the failure e.g.

[ 1984.506184] rac1 kernel: memory offlining [mem 0x82600000000-0x8267fffffff] failed due to signal backoff

this tells us that the offlining has failed because of a signal pending
aka user intervention.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index a92b1b8f6218..1badac89c58e 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1553,6 +1553,7 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	unsigned long valid_start, valid_end;
 	struct zone *zone;
 	struct memory_notify arg;
+	char *reason;
 
 	mem_hotplug_begin();
 
@@ -1561,7 +1562,9 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	if (!test_pages_in_a_zone(start_pfn, end_pfn, &valid_start,
 				  &valid_end)) {
 		mem_hotplug_done();
-		return -EINVAL;
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		reason = "multizone range";
+		goto failed_removal;
 	}
 
 	zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(valid_start));
@@ -1573,7 +1576,8 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 				       MIGRATE_MOVABLE, true);
 	if (ret) {
 		mem_hotplug_done();
-		return ret;
+		reason = "failed to isolate range";
+		goto failed_removal
 	}
 
 	arg.start_pfn = start_pfn;
@@ -1582,15 +1586,19 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 
 	ret = memory_notify(MEM_GOING_OFFLINE, &arg);
 	ret = notifier_to_errno(ret);
-	if (ret)
-		goto failed_removal;
+	if (ret) {
+		reason = "notifiers failure";
+		goto failed_removal_isolated;
+	}
 
 	pfn = start_pfn;
 repeat:
 	/* start memory hot removal */
 	ret = -EINTR;
-	if (signal_pending(current))
-		goto failed_removal;
+	if (signal_pending(current)) {
+		reason = "signal backoff";
+		goto failed_removal_isolated;
+	}
 
 	cond_resched();
 	lru_add_drain_all();
@@ -1607,8 +1615,10 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	 * actually in order to make hugetlbfs's object counting consistent.
 	 */
 	ret = dissolve_free_huge_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
-	if (ret)
-		goto failed_removal;
+	if (ret) {
+		reason = "fails to disolve hugetlb pages";
+		goto failed_removal_isolated;
+	}
 	/* check again */
 	offlined_pages = check_pages_isolated(start_pfn, end_pfn);
 	if (offlined_pages < 0)
@@ -1648,13 +1658,15 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
 	mem_hotplug_done();
 	return 0;
 
+failed_removal_isolated:
+	undo_isolate_page_range(start_pfn, end_pfn, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
 failed_removal:
-	pr_debug("memory offlining [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed\n",
+	pr_debug("memory offlining [mem %#010llx-%#010llx] failed due to %s\n",
 		 (unsigned long long) start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
-		 ((unsigned long long) end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1);
+		 ((unsigned long long) end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1,
+		 reason);
 	memory_notify(MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE, &arg);
 	/* pushback to free area */
-	undo_isolate_page_range(start_pfn, end_pfn, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
 	mem_hotplug_done();
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.19.1