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memory-hotplug: auto offline page_cgroup when onlining memory block failed
authorWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:14:50 +0000 (12:14 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:17:22 +0000 (14:17 +1100)
commit9a954cee880de7736f1077f07e43fea0cba1eef0
tree1c9c1b00c1b5fc735ab3a391d818e13f02930127
parentc651f52cf90b11d94f795ac4615bbe11254248ae
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