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authorBalbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>2018-12-28 00:33:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-28 12:11:46 -0800
commit5eb570a8d9248e0c1358078a59916d0e337e695b (patch)
tree9163f5c55857e2439bd9c2d37919a6e79d08218e /mm/sparse.c
parentc8f61cfc871fadfb73ad3eacd64fda457279e911 (diff)
mm/hotplug: optimize clear_hwpoisoned_pages()
In hot remove, we try to clear poisoned pages, but a small optimization to check if num_poisoned_pages is 0 helps remove the iteration through nr_pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181102120001.4526-1-bsingharora@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/sparse.c')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 3abc8cc50201..691544a2814c 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -740,6 +740,15 @@ static void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struct page *memmap, int nr_pages)
if (!memmap)
return;
+ /*
+ * A further optimization is to have per section refcounted
+ * num_poisoned_pages. But that would need more space per memmap, so
+ * for now just do a quick global check to speed up this routine in the
+ * absence of bad pages.
+ */
+ if (atomic_long_read(&num_poisoned_pages) == 0)
+ return;
+
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
if (PageHWPoison(&memmap[i])) {
atomic_long_sub(1, &num_poisoned_pages);