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memory-hotplug: fix zone stat mismatch
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:58 +0000 (10:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:07:54 +0000 (16:07 +1000)
commit43451d7f06c3ccc42c8cfa653f9e2fe2ce6d4c6c
treee842111b7b8729ae69716a88c3080eb607ab9ce9
parent7a32b57f067eeb73f3fa1dfe301140fc0f19dc60
memory-hotplug: fix zone stat mismatch

During memory-hotplug, I found NR_ISOLATED_[ANON|FILE] are increasing,
causing the kernel to hang.  When the system doesn't have enough free
pages, it enters reclaim but never reclaim any pages due to
too_many_isolated()==true and loops forever.

The cause is that when we do memory-hotadd after memory-remove,
__zone_pcp_update() clears a zone's ZONE_STAT_ITEMS in setup_pageset()
although the vm_stat_diff of all CPUs still have values.

In addtion, when we offline all pages of the zone, we reset them in
zone_pcp_reset without draining so we loss some zone stat item.

Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/vmstat.h
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/vmstat.c