Re: [PATCH v2] mm, hotplug: move init_currently_empty_zone() under zone_span_lock protection

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 06:12:41PM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>During online_pages phase, pgdat->nr_zones will be updated in case this
>zone is empty.
>
>Currently the online_pages phase is protected by the global lock
>mem_hotplug_begin(), which ensures there is no contention during the
>update of nr_zones. But this global lock introduces scalability issues.
>
>This patch is a preparation for removing the global lock during
>online_pages phase. Also this patch changes the documentation of
>node_size_lock to include the protectioin of nr_zones.
>
>Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>

Missed this, if I am correct. :-)

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

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