On 10/13/20 4:44 PM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
memory_failure and soft_offline_path paths now drain pcplists by calling
get_hwpoison_page.
memory_failure flags the page as HWPoison before, so that page cannot
longer go into a pcplist, and soft_offline_page only flags a page as
HWPoison if 1) we took the page off a buddy freelist 2) the page was
in-use and we migrated it 3) was a clean pagecache.
Because of that, a page cannot longer be poisoned and be in a pcplist.
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/madvise.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 416a56b8e757..c6b5524add58 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -877,7 +877,6 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
- struct zone *zone;
unsigned long size;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
@@ -922,10 +921,6 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
return ret;
}
- /* Ensure that all poisoned pages are removed from per-cpu lists */
- for_each_populated_zone(zone)
- drain_all_pages(zone);
-
return 0;
}
#endif
