Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:44:11 +0800 | From | Ni zhan Chen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] memory-hotplug: auto offline page_cgroup when onlining memory block failed |
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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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