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As discussed in previous thread [1], there is an inconsistency when handing hugetlb migration. When handling the migration of freed hugetlb, it prevents fallback to other NUMA nodes in alloc_and_dissolve_hugetlb_folio(). However, when dealing with in-use hugetlb, it allows fallback to other NUMA nodes in alloc_hugetlb_folio_nodemask(), which can break the per-node hugetlb pool and might result in unexpected failures when node bound workloads doesn't get what is asssumed available. To make hugetlb migration strategy more clear, we should list all the scenarios of hugetlb migration and analyze whether allocation fallback is permitted: 1) Memory offline: will call dissolve_free_huge_pages() to free the freed hugetlb, and call do_migrate_range() to migrate the in-use hugetlb. Both can break the per-node hugetlb pool, but as this is an explicit offlining operation, no better choice. So should allow the hugetlb allocation fallback. 2) Memory failure: same as memory offline. Should allow fallback to a different node might be the only option to handle it, otherwise the impact of poisoned memory can be amplified. 3) Longterm pinning: will call migrate_longterm_unpinnable_pages() to migrate in-use and not-longterm-pinnable hugetlb, which can break the per-node pool. But we should fail to longterm pinning if can not allocate on current node to avoid breaking the per-node pool. 4) Syscalls (mbind, migrate_pages, move_pages): these are explicit users operation to move pages to other nodes, so fallback to other nodes should not be prohibited. 5) alloc_contig_range: used by CMA allocation and virtio-mem fake-offline to allocate given range of pages. Now the freed hugetlb migration is not allowed to fallback, to keep consistency, the in-use hugetlb migration should be also not allowed to fallback. 6) alloc_contig_pages: used by kfence, pgtable_debug etc. The strategy should be consistent with that of alloc_contig_range(). Based on the analysis of the various scenarios above, introducing a new helper to determine whether fallback is permitted according to the migration reason.. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/6f26ce22d2fcd523418a085f2c588fe0776d46e7.1706794035.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3519fcd41522817307a05b40fb551e2e17e68101.1709719720.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
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