From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A96600762 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:16:48 -0500 (EST) From: Andi Kleen References: <200912081016.198135742@firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <200912081016.198135742@firstfloor.org> Subject: [PATCH] [28/31] HWPOISON: Use new shake_page in memory_failure Message-Id: <20091208211644.92950B151F@basil.firstfloor.org> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:16:44 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: fengguang.wu@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: shake_page handles more types of page caches than the much simpler lru_add_drain_all: - slab (quite inefficiently for now) - any other caches with a shrinker callback - per cpu page allocator pages - per CPU LRU Use this call to try to turn pages into free or LRU pages. Then handle the case of the page becoming free after drain everything. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- mm/memory-failure.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/mm/memory-failure.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/memory-failure.c +++ linux/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -934,8 +934,15 @@ int __memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, * walked by the page reclaim code, however that's not a big loss. */ if (!PageLRU(p)) - lru_add_drain_all(); + shake_page(p); if (!PageLRU(p)) { + /* + * shake_page could have turned it free. + */ + if (is_free_buddy_page(p)) { + action_result(pfn, "free buddy, 2nd try", DELAYED); + return 0; + } action_result(pfn, "non LRU", IGNORED); put_page(p); return -EBUSY; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org