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    mm: Add notifier in pageblock isolation for balloon drivers · 925cc71e
    Robert Jennings authored
    Memory balloon drivers can allocate a large amount of memory which is not
    movable but could be freed to accomodate memory hotplug remove.
    
    Prior to calling the memory hotplug notifier chain the memory in the
    pageblock is isolated.  Currently, if the migrate type is not
    MIGRATE_MOVABLE the isolation will not proceed, causing the memory removal
    for that page range to fail.
    
    Rather than failing pageblock isolation if the migrateteype is not
    MIGRATE_MOVABLE, this patch checks if all of the pages in the pageblock,
    and not on the LRU, are owned by a registered balloon driver (or other
    entity) using a notifier chain.  If all of the non-movable pages are owned
    by a balloon, they can be freed later through the memory notifier chain
    and the range can still be isolated in set_migratetype_isolate().
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geralds@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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