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Commit 06be6ff3 authored by Oscar Salvador's avatar Oscar Salvador Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm,hwpoison: rework soft offline for free pages



When trying to soft-offline a free page, we need to first take it off the
buddy allocator.  Once we know is out of reach, we can safely flag it as
poisoned.

take_page_off_buddy will be used to take a page meant to be poisoned off
the buddy allocator.  take_page_off_buddy calls break_down_buddy_pages,
which splits a higher-order page in case our page belongs to one.

Once the page is under our control, we call page_handle_poison to set it
as poisoned and grab a refcount on it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200922135650.1634-9-osalvador@suse.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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