On Mon,  1 Feb 2016 16:26:09 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe I miss some point, but I don't see a reason why we try to queue
> pages from non migratable VMAs.
> 
> The only case when we can queue pages from such VMA is MPOL_MF_STRICT
> plus MPOL_MF_MOVE or MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL for VMA which has pages on LRU,
> but gfp mask is not sutable for migaration (see mapping_gfp_mask() check
> in vma_migratable()). That's looks like a bug to me.
> 
> Let's filter out non-migratable vma at start of queue_pages_test_walk()
> and go to queue_pages_pte_range() only if MPOL_MF_MOVE or
> MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL flag is set.

Conflicts with
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mempolicy-skip-vm_hugetlb-and-vm_mixedmap-vma-for-lazy-mbind.patch.
I resolved it thusly, please review:

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mempolicy-do-not-try-to-queue-pages-from-vma_migratable
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -548,8 +548,7 @@ retry:
                        goto retry;
                }
 
-               if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL))
-                       migrate_page_add(page, qp->pagelist, flags);
+               migrate_page_add(page, qp->pagelist, flags);
        }
        pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
        cond_resched();
@@ -625,7 +624,7 @@ static int queue_pages_test_walk(unsigne
        unsigned long endvma = vma->vm_end;
        unsigned long flags = qp->flags;
 
-       if (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)
+       if (!vma_migratable(vma))
                return 1;
 
        if (endvma > end)
@@ -644,17 +643,15 @@ static int queue_pages_test_walk(unsigne
 
        if (flags & MPOL_MF_LAZY) {
                /* Similar to task_numa_work, skip inaccessible VMAs */
-               if (vma_migratable(vma) && !is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) &&
+               if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) &&
                        (vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE)) &&
                        !(vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP))
                        change_prot_numa(vma, start, endvma);
                return 1;
        }
 
-       if ((flags & MPOL_MF_STRICT) ||
-           ((flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL)) &&
-            vma_migratable(vma)))
-               /* queue pages from current vma */
+       /* queue pages from current vma */
+       if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL))
                return 0;
        return 1;
 }
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