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Baolin Wang b5bade978e 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: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Co-developed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-15 16:30:30 +02:00
arch mm/mempolicy: wire up syscall set_mempolicy_home_node 2022-01-15 16:30:30 +02:00
block block-5.16-2021-12-19 2021-12-19 12:38:53 -08:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Update to zstd-1.4.10 2021-11-13 15:32:30 -08:00
Documentation mm/mempolicy: add set_mempolicy_home_node syscall 2022-01-15 16:30:30 +02:00
drivers device-dax: compound devmap support 2022-01-15 16:30:26 +02:00
fs hugetlbfs: fix off-by-one error in hugetlb_vmdelete_list() 2022-01-15 16:30:30 +02:00
include mm/mempolicy: wire up syscall set_mempolicy_home_node 2022-01-15 16:30:30 +02:00
init kbuild: Fix -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 error for GCC 5.x and 6.x 2021-11-14 18:59:49 -08:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-11-20 10:35:54 -08:00
kernel mm/mempolicy: wire up syscall set_mempolicy_home_node 2022-01-15 16:30:30 +02:00
lib kasan: test: add test case for double-kmem_cache_destroy() 2022-01-15 16:30:26 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm: migrate: fix the return value of migrate_pages() 2022-01-15 16:30:30 +02:00
net mm: introduce memalloc_retry_wait() 2022-01-15 16:30:29 +02:00
samples ftrace/samples: Add missing prototypes direct functions 2022-01-05 18:34:50 -05:00
scripts scripts/spelling.txt: add "oveflow" 2022-01-15 16:30:24 +02:00
security selinux/stable-5.16 PR 20211228 2021-12-28 13:33:06 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.16-rc7 2021-12-23 09:55:58 -08:00
tools userfaultfd/selftests: clean up hugetlb allocation code 2022-01-15 16:30:30 +02:00
usr initramfs: Check timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2021-10-24 13:48:40 +09:00
virt KVM: downgrade two BUG_ONs to WARN_ON_ONCE 2021-11-26 06:43:28 -05:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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