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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] memory-hotplug: auto offline page_cgroup when onlining memory block failed
On 09/27/2012 01:45 PM, wency@cn.fujitsu.com wrote:
> From: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
>
> When a memory block is onlined, we will try allocate memory on that node
> to store page_cgroup. If onlining the memory block failed, we don't
> offline the page cgroup, and we have no chance to offline this page cgroup
> unless the memory block is onlined successfully again. It will cause
> that we can't hot-remove the memory device on that node, because some
> memory is used to store page cgroup. If onlining the memory block
> is failed, there is no need to stort page cgroup for this memory. So
> auto offline page_cgroup when onlining memory block failed.

looks reasonable to me. thanks.

>
> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> CC: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
> CC: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> CC: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
> mm/page_cgroup.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_cgroup.c b/mm/page_cgroup.c
> index 5ddad0c..44db00e 100644
> --- a/mm/page_cgroup.c
> +++ b/mm/page_cgroup.c
> @@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ static int __meminit page_cgroup_callback(struct notifier_block *self,
> mn->nr_pages, mn->status_change_nid);
> break;
> case MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE:
> + offline_page_cgroup(mn->start_pfn,
> + mn->nr_pages, mn->status_change_nid);
> + break;
> case MEM_GOING_OFFLINE:
> break;
> case MEM_ONLINE:



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