memory-hotplug: do not allocate pgdat if it was not freed when offline.
Since there is no way to guarentee the address of pgdat/zone is not on stack of any kernel threads or used by other kernel objects without reference counting or other symchronizing method, we cannot reset node_data and free pgdat when offlining a node. Just reset pgdat to 0 and reuse the memory when the node is online again. The problem is suggested by Kamezawa Hiroyuki. The idea is from Wen Congyang. NOTE: If we don't reset pgdat to 0, the WARN_ON in free_area_init_node() will be triggered. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning when CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=n] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix the warning again again] Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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