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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2018-12-28 09:33:53 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-28 21:11:46 +0100
commit2932c8b05056d4ba702f70f4deebe1c97600e62b (patch)
treebb15067037e78894283000dbb40c22650deb2d9b /mm/page_alloc.c
parentmm, memory_hotplug: print reason for the offlining failure (diff)
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mm, memory_hotplug: be more verbose for memory offline failures
There is only very limited information printed when the memory offlining fails: [ 1984.506184] rac1 kernel: memory offlining [mem 0x82600000000-0x8267fffffff] failed due to signal backoff This tells us that the failure is triggered by the userspace intervention but it doesn't tell us much more about the underlying reason. It might be that the page migration failes repeatedly and the userspace timeout expires and send a signal or it might be some of the earlier steps (isolation, memory notifier) takes too long. If the migration failes then it would be really helpful to see which page that and its state. The same applies to the isolation phase. If we fail to isolate a page from the allocator then knowing the state of the page would be helpful as well. Dump the page state that fails to get isolated or migrated. This will tell us more about the failure and what to focus on during debugging. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing printk arg] [mhocko@suse.com: tweak dump_page() `reason' text] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116083020.20260-6-mhocko@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107101830.17405-6-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <OSalvador@suse.com> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d245de2124e3..c6f090e9a112 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7869,6 +7869,7 @@ bool has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, int count,
return false;
unmovable:
WARN_ON_ONCE(zone_idx(zone) == ZONE_MOVABLE);
+ dump_page(pfn_to_page(pfn+iter), "unmovable page");
return true;
}