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Commit 2f714160 authored by Oscar Salvador's avatar Oscar Salvador Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm,hwpoison: disable pcplists before grabbing a refcount

Currently, we have a sort of retry mechanism to make sure pages in
pcp-lists are spilled to the buddy system, so we can handle those.

We can save us this extra checks with the new disable-pcplist mechanism
that is available with [1].

zone_pcplist_disable makes sure to 1) disable pcplists, so any page that
is freed up from that point onwards will end up in the buddy system and 2)
drain pcplists, so those pages that already in pcplists are spilled to
buddy.

With that, we can make a common entry point for grabbing a refcount from
both soft_offline and memory_failure paths that is guarded by
zone_pcplist_disable/zone_pcplist_enable.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/cover/20201111092812.11329-1-vbabka@suse.cz/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201204102558.31607-3-osalvador@suse.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Qian Cai <qcai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8295d535
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