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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2 1/2] mm: hotplug: implement non-movable version of get_user_pages() called get_user_pages_non_movable()
Hi Mel,

On 05/13/2013 05:19 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>> For memory hot-remove case, the aio pages are pined in memory and making
>> the pages cannot be offlined, furthermore, the pages cannot be removed.
>>
>> IIUC, you mean implement migrate_unpin() and migrate_pin() callbacks in aio
>> subsystem, and call them when hot-remove code tries to offline
>> pages, right ?
>>
>> If so, I'm wondering where should we put this callback pointers ?
>> In struct page ?
>>
>
> No, I would expect the callbacks to be part the address space operations
> which can be found via page->mapping.
>

Two more problems I don't quite understand.

1. For an anonymous page, it has no address_space, and no address space
operation. But the aio ring problem just happened when dealing with
anonymous pages. Please refer to:
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/29/69)

If we put the the callbacks in page->mapping->a_ops, the anonymous
pages
won't be able to use them.

And we cannot give a default callback because the situation we are
dealing
with is a special situation.

So where to put the callback for anonymous pages ?


2. How to find out the reason why page->count != 1 in
migrate_page_move_mapping() ?

In the problem we are dealing with, get_user_pages() is called to
pin the pages
in memory. And the pages are migratable. So we want to decrease the
page->count.

But get_user_pages() is not the only reason leading to page->count
increased.
How can I know when should decrease teh page->count or when should not ?

The way I can figure out is to assign the callback pointer in
get_user_pages()
because it is get_user_pages() who pins the pages.


Thanks. :)










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