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authorWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>2012-12-11 16:00:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-11 17:22:23 -0800
commit7c72eb327282ee7fcadc5ef227c075cf72467ba7 (patch)
tree0be182b26514edc295ea28db7b8224d134039841 /README
parent95a4774d055c72d96ab192a1c6675cbf4d513f71 (diff)
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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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