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Commit 94310cbc authored by Anshuman Khandual's avatar Anshuman Khandual Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/madvise: enable (soft|hard) offline of HugeTLB pages at PGD level

Though migrating gigantic HugeTLB pages does not sound much like real
world use case, they can be affected by memory errors.  Hence migration
at the PGD level HugeTLB pages should be supported just to enable soft
and hard offline use cases.

While allocating the new gigantic HugeTLB page, it should not matter
whether new page comes from the same node or not.  There would be very
few gigantic pages on the system afterall, we should not be bothered
about node locality when trying to save a big page from crashing.

This change renames dequeu_huge_page_node() function as dequeue_huge
_page_node_exact() preserving it's original functionality.  Now the new
dequeue_huge_page_node() function scans through all available online nodes
to allocate a huge page for the NUMA_NO_NODE case and just falls back
calling dequeu_huge_page_node_exact() for all other cases.

[arnd@arndb.de: make hstate_is_gigantic() inline]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522124748.3911296-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170516100509.20122-1-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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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