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memory-hotplug: auto offline page_cgroup when onlining memory block failed
authorWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Sat, 3 Nov 2012 00:42:16 +0000 (11:42 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 04:08:33 +0000 (15:08 +1100)
commit9716b8087bfbf3dab419f478db33989e2d8194b2
treeaa16bb124439ca2806af8d318a9b5c2a2d4522c6
parent86dbade662b56ef013a361d9bbd0f67d70408425
memory-hotplug: auto offline page_cgroup when onlining memory block failed

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.

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
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: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_cgroup.c