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mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists
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When online_pages() is called to add new memory to an empty zone, it
rebuilds all zone lists by calling build_all_zonelists().  But there's a
bug which prevents the new zone to be added to other nodes' zone lists.

online_pages() {
	build_all_zonelists()
	.....
	node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY)
}

Here the node of the zone is put into N_HIGH_MEMORY state after calling
build_all_zonelists(), but build_all_zonelists() only adds zones from
nodes in N_HIGH_MEMORY state to the fallback zone lists.
build_all_zonelists()

    ->__build_all_zonelists()
	->build_zonelists()
	    ->find_next_best_node()
		->for_each_node_state(n, N_HIGH_MEMORY)

So memory in the new zone will never be used by other nodes, and it may
cause strange behavor when system is under memory pressure.  So put node
into N_HIGH_MEMORY state before calling build_all_zonelists().

Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Keping Chen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Jiang Liu authored and torvalds committed Aug 1, 2012
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15 changes: 8 additions & 7 deletions mm/memory_hotplug.c
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Expand Up @@ -512,19 +512,20 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)

zone->present_pages += onlined_pages;
zone->zone_pgdat->node_present_pages += onlined_pages;
if (need_zonelists_rebuild)
build_all_zonelists(NULL, zone);
else
zone_pcp_update(zone);
if (onlined_pages) {
node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY);
if (need_zonelists_rebuild)
build_all_zonelists(NULL, zone);
else
zone_pcp_update(zone);
}

mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);

init_per_zone_wmark_min();

if (onlined_pages) {
if (onlined_pages)
kswapd_run(zone_to_nid(zone));
node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY);
}

vm_total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages();

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