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author | Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> | 2009-12-16 12:19:57 +0100 |
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committer | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2009-12-16 12:19:57 +0100 |
commit | 588f9ce6ca61ecb4663ee6ef2f75d2d96c73151e (patch) | |
tree | 4f68c55642c51312bdf6e49818b9889ec37a1ac3 /mm/memory-failure.c | |
parent | HWPOISON: Add Andi Kleen as hwpoison maintainer to MAINTAINERS (diff) | |
download | linux-588f9ce6ca61ecb4663ee6ef2f75d2d96c73151e.tar.xz linux-588f9ce6ca61ecb4663ee6ef2f75d2d96c73151e.zip |
HWPOISON: Be more aggressive at freeing non LRU caches
shake_page handles more types of page caches than lru_drain_all()
- per cpu page allocator pages
- per CPU LRU
Stops early when the page became free.
Used in followon patches.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory-failure.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/memory-failure.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index 50d4f8d7024a..38fcbb22eab9 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -83,6 +83,28 @@ static int kill_proc_ao(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long addr, int trapno, } /* + * When a unknown page type is encountered drain as many buffers as possible + * in the hope to turn the page into a LRU or free page, which we can handle. + */ +void shake_page(struct page *p) +{ + if (!PageSlab(p)) { + lru_add_drain_all(); + if (PageLRU(p)) + return; + drain_all_pages(); + if (PageLRU(p) || is_free_buddy_page(p)) + return; + } + /* + * Could call shrink_slab here (which would also + * shrink other caches). Unfortunately that might + * also access the corrupted page, which could be fatal. + */ +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shake_page); + +/* * Kill all processes that have a poisoned page mapped and then isolate * the page. * |