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mm,hwpoison: disable pcplists before grabbing a refcount
authorOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:11:41 +0000 (19:11 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:13:44 +0000 (12:13 -0800)
commit98a0f90b0463d4d103cb3fa49922e2341ea78604
tree9522273eb3272c1b4fa5e840ce23897e1a021629
parent10d5c11c6e7dfce7e11688af0d6b9edb7b82e8a8
mm,hwpoison: disable pcplists before grabbing a refcount

Currently, we have a sort of retry mechanism to make sure pages in
pcp-lists are spilled to the buddy system, so we can handle those.

We can save us this extra checks with the new disable-pcplist mechanism
that is available with [1].

zone_pcplist_disable makes sure to 1) disable pcplists, so any page that
is freed up from that point onwards will end up in the buddy system and 2)
drain pcplists, so those pages that already in pcplists are spilled to
buddy.

With that, we can make a common entry point for grabbing a refcount from
both soft_offline and memory_failure paths that is guarded by
zone_pcplist_disable/zone_pcplist_enable.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/cover/20201111092812.11329-1-vbabka@suse.cz/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201204102558.31607-3-osalvador@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Qian Cai <qcai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory-failure.c