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Commit b5bade97 authored by Baolin Wang's avatar Baolin Wang Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: migrate: fix the return value of migrate_pages()



Patch series "Improve the migration stats".

According to talk with Zi Yan [1], this patch set changes the return
value of migrate_pages() to avoid returning a number which is larger
than the number of pages the users tried to migrate by move_pages()
syscall.  Also fix the hugetlb migration stats and migration stats in
trace_mm_compaction_migratepages().

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/7E44019D-2A5D-4BA7-B4D5-00D4712F1687@nvidia.com/

This patch (of 3):

As Zi Yan pointed out, the syscall move_pages() can return a
non-migrated number larger than the number of pages the users tried to
migrate, when a THP page is failed to migrate.  This is confusing for
users.

Since other migration scenarios do not care about the actual
non-migrated number of pages except the memory compaction migration
which will fix in following patch.  Thus we can change the return value
to return the number of {normal page, THP, hugetlb} instead to avoid
this issue, and the number of THP splits will be considered as the
number of non-migrated THP, no matter how many subpages of the THP are
migrated successfully.  Meanwhile we should still keep the migration
counters using the number of normal pages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1636275127.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6486fabc3e8c66ff613e150af25e89b3147977a6.1636275127.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d6aba4c8
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