From 435b405c06119d93333738172b8060b0ed12af41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Minchan Kim Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:32:16 -0700 Subject: memory-hotplug: fix pages missed by race rather than failing If race between allocation and isolation in memory-hotplug offline happens, some pages could be in MIGRATE_MOVABLE of free_list although the pageblock's migratetype of the page is MIGRATE_ISOLATE. The race could be detected by get_freepage_migratetype in __test_page_isolated_in_pageblock. If it is detected, now EBUSY gets bubbled all the way up and the hotplug operations fails. But better idea is instead of returning and failing memory-hotremove, move the free page to the correct list at the time it is detected. It could enhance memory-hotremove operation success ratio although the race is really rare. Suggested by Mel Gorman. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanup] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Xishi Qiu Cc: Wen Congyang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 94fd283dde98..82f0b2f54f81 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ static int fallbacks[MIGRATE_TYPES][4] = { * Note that start_page and end_pages are not aligned on a pageblock * boundary. If alignment is required, use move_freepages_block() */ -static int move_freepages(struct zone *zone, +int move_freepages(struct zone *zone, struct page *start_page, struct page *end_page, int migratetype) { -- cgit v1.2.3