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    mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists · 446327d6
    Jiang Liu authored
    commit 08dff7b7 upstream.
    
    When online_pages() is called to add new memory to an empty zone, it
    rebuilds all zone lists by calling build_all_zonelists().  But there's a
    bug which prevents the new zone to be added to other nodes' zone lists.
    
    online_pages() {
    	build_all_zonelists()
    	.....
    	node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY)
    }
    
    Here the node of the zone is put into N_HIGH_MEMORY state after calling
    build_all_zonelists(), but build_all_zonelists() only adds zones from
    nodes in N_HIGH_MEMORY state to the fallback zone lists.
    build_all_zonelists()
    
        ->__build_all_zonelists()
    	->build_zonelists()
    	    ->find_next_best_node()
    		->for_each_node_state(n, N_HIGH_MEMORY)
    
    So memory in the new zone will never be used by other nodes, and it may
    cause strange behavor when system is under memory pressure.  So put node
    into N_HIGH_MEMORY state before calling build_all_zonelists().
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Keping Chen <chenkeping@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
    Cc: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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