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memory hotplug: exclude isolated page from pco page alloc
authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:01:17 +0000 (17:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:17:25 +0000 (07:17 -0700)
commit387a660aa284fa2dc49b3bb8d98e7922ad4815bb
tree261fe72f01461d65532730f283108be2306b80b5
parent29f6ede11202f50a1ec88016d5b8db607a112473
memory hotplug: exclude isolated page from pco page alloc

Pages marked as isolated should not be allocated again.  If such pages
reside in pcp list, they can be allocated too, so there is a ping-pong
memory offline frees some pages to pcp list and the pages get allocated
and then memory offline frees them again, this loop will happen again and
again.

This should have no impact in normal code path, because in normal code
path, pages in pcp list aren't isolated, and below loop will break in the
first entry.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c