tree c317e401fa7c867e1652879627163331f43085ef
parent 2326c467df4ff814dc07cf1bdaa1e6e0a9c9f21c
author Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> 1260962400 +0100
committer Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> 1260962400 +0100

HWPOISON: Add soft page offline support

This is a simpler, gentler variant of memory_failure() for soft page
offlining controlled from user space.  It doesn't kill anything, just
tries to invalidate and if that doesn't work migrate the
page away.

This is useful for predictive failure analysis, where a page has
a high rate of corrected errors, but hasn't gone bad yet. Instead
it can be offlined early and avoided.

The offlining is controlled from sysfs, including a new generic
entry point for hard page offlining for symmetry too.

We use the page isolate facility to prevent re-allocation
race. Normally this is only used by memory hotplug. To avoid
races with memory allocation I am using lock_system_sleep().
This avoids the situation where memory hotplug is about
to isolate a page range and then hwpoison undoes that work.
This is a big hammer currently, but the simplest solution
currently.

When the page is not free or LRU we try to free pages
from slab and other caches. The slab freeing is currently
quite dumb and does not try to focus on the specific slab
cache which might own the page. This could be potentially
improved later.

Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Haicheng Li for some fixes.

[Added fix from Andrew Morton to adapt to new migrate_pages prototype]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>