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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>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:14:38 +0000 (14:14 +1100)
commitefd5a841cc677b2e78e8838b57fa053b3c68b6da
tree7e1052df0c897e2fe4eca32d816cebefb9171694
parente3332f5f5cd8ae54dca1c980bb03eb6b9ee4c7d7
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