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authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>2012-10-09 03:32:16 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 11:22:46 +0400
commit435b405c06119d93333738172b8060b0ed12af41 (patch)
treea87f9a493f5c677ab23eeab1eab2e45caeb79bc3 /include/linux/page-isolation.h
parent41d575ad4a511b71a4a41c8313004212f5c229b1 (diff)
downloadlinux-435b405c06119d93333738172b8060b0ed12af41.tar.xz
memory-hotplug: fix pages missed by race rather than failing
If race between allocation and isolation in memory-hotplug offline happens, some pages could be in MIGRATE_MOVABLE of free_list although the pageblock's migratetype of the page is MIGRATE_ISOLATE. The race could be detected by get_freepage_migratetype in __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock. If it is detected, now EBUSY gets bubbled all the way up and the hotplug operations fails. But better idea is instead of returning and failing memory-hotremove, move the free page to the correct list at the time it is detected. It could enhance memory-hotremove operation success ratio although the race is really rare. Suggested by Mel Gorman. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanup] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.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/include/linux/page-isolation.h b/include/linux/page-isolation.h
index 105077aa7685..fca8c0a5c188 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-isolation.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-isolation.h
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ bool has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, int count);
void set_pageblock_migratetype(struct page *page, int migratetype);
int move_freepages_block(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
int migratetype);
+int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
+ struct page *start_page, struct page *end_page,
+ int migratetype);
+
/*
* Changes migrate type in [start_pfn, end_pfn) to be MIGRATE_ISOLATE.
* If specified range includes migrate types other than MOVABLE or CMA,