Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] HWPOISON: soft offline rework

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 04:22:14 EST


On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 08:35 +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > Even after applied the compling fix,
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200628065409.GA546944@u2004/
> >
> > madvise(MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) will fail with EIO with hugetlb where it
> > would succeed without this series. Steps:
> >
> > # git clone https://github.com/cailca/linux-mm
> > # cd linux-mm; make
> > # ./random 1 (Need at least two NUMA memory nodes)
> > start: migrate_huge_offline
> > - use NUMA nodes 0,4.
> > - mmap and free 8388608 bytes hugepages on node 0
> > - mmap and free 8388608 bytes hugepages on node 4
> > madvise: Input/output error
>
> I think I know why.
> It's been a while since I took a look, but I compared the posted
> patchset with my newest patchset I had ready and I saw I made some
> changes with regard of hugetlb pages.
>
> I will be taking a look, although it might be better to re-post the
> patchset instead of adding a fix on top since the changes are a bit
> substantial.

Yap, I just confirmed this.

Posted version had some flaws wrt. hugetlb pages, that is why I was
working on a v3.
I am rebasing my v3 on top of the mm with the posted patchset reverted.

I expect to post it on Friday.


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Oscar Salvador
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