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Commit 510d25c9 authored by Naoya Horiguchi's avatar Naoya Horiguchi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/hwpoison: disable pcp for page_handle_poison()



Recent changes by patch "mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be
stored on the per-cpu lists" makes kernels determine whether to use pcp by
pcp_allowed_order(), which breaks soft-offline for hugetlb pages.

Soft-offline dissolves a migration source page, then removes it from buddy
free list, so it's assumed that any subpage of the soft-offlined hugepage
are recognized as a buddy page just after returning from
dissolve_free_huge_page().  pcp_allowed_order() returns true for hugetlb,
so this assumption is no longer true.

So disable pcp during dissolve_free_huge_page() and take_page_off_buddy()
to prevent soft-offlined hugepages from linking to pcp lists.
Soft-offline should not be common events so the impact on performance
should be minimal.  And I think that the optimization of Mel's patch could
benefit to hugetlb so zone_pcp_disable() is called only in hwpoison
context.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210617092626.291006-1-nao.horiguchi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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