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memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online

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To initialize hotadded node, some pages are allocated.  At that time, the
node hasn't memory, this makes the allocation always fail.  In such case,
let's allocate pages from other nodes.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Shaohua Li 2009-09-21 17:01:19 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit f52407ce2d
3 changed files with 22 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -48,8 +48,14 @@ void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
{
/* If the main allocator is up use that, fallback to bootmem. */
if (slab_is_available()) {
struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node,
struct page *page;
if (node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
page = alloc_pages_node(node,
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, get_order(size));
else
page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
get_order(size));
if (page)
return page_address(page);
return NULL;