mm,hwpoison: disable pcplists before grabbing a refcount
Currently, we have a sort of retry mechanism to make sure pages in pcp-lists are spilled to the buddy system, so we can handle those. We can save us this extra checks with the new disable-pcplist mechanism that is available with [1]. zone_pcplist_disable makes sure to 1) disable pcplists, so any page that is freed up from that point onwards will end up in the buddy system and 2) drain pcplists, so those pages that already in pcplists are spilled to buddy. With that, we can make a common entry point for grabbing a refcount from both soft_offline and memory_failure paths that is guarded by zone_pcplist_disable/zone_pcplist_enable. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/cover/20201111092812.11329-1-vbabka@suse.cz/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201204102558.31607-3-osalvador@suse.deSigned-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Qian Cai <qcai@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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