Infinite looping observed in __offline_pages

[Michael Ellerman]

Michal Hocko <mhocko at kernel.org> writes:
> On Wed 25-07-18 13:11:15, John Allen wrote:
> [...]
>> Does a failure in do_migrate_range indicate that the range is unmigratable
>> and the loop in __offline_pages should terminate and goto failed_removal? Or
>> should we allow a certain number of retrys before we
>> give up on migrating the range?
>
> Unfortunatelly not. Migration code doesn't tell a difference between
> ephemeral and permanent failures.

What's to stop an ephemeral failure happening repeatedly?

cheers