[PATCH 9/9] free memory is user reclaimable

[Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>]

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Make the free memory revert to user reclaimable type, which is probably more
accurate, and certainly helpful for memory hotplug remove.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>


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Index: 2.6.13-joel2/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.13-joel2.orig/mm/page_alloc.c	2005-09-21 11:31:51.%N -0500
+++ 2.6.13-joel2/mm/page_alloc.c	2005-09-21 11:37:48.%N -0500
@@ -339,6 +339,9 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct p
  * triggers coalescing into a block of larger size.            
  *
  * -- wli
+ *
+ * For hotplug memory purposes make the free memory revert to the user
+ * reclaimable type, which is probably more accurate for that state anyway.
  */
 
 static inline void __free_pages_bulk (struct page *page,
@@ -379,7 +382,10 @@ static inline void __free_pages_bulk (st
 		page_idx = combined_idx;
 		order++;
 	}
-	if (unlikely(order == MAX_ORDER-1)) zone->fallback_balance++;
+	if (unlikely(order == MAX_ORDER-1)) {
+		set_pageblock_type(zone, page, RCLM_USER);
+		zone->fallback_balance++;
+	}
 
 	set_page_order(page, order);
 	area = freelist + order;