From a1e565aa3cfc7c6252cabc93de8391d12b9216aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tang Chen Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:33:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] memory-hotplug: do not allocate pgdat if it was not freed when offline. Since there is no way to guarentee the address of pgdat/zone is not on stack of any kernel threads or used by other kernel objects without reference counting or other symchronizing method, we cannot reset node_data and free pgdat when offlining a node. Just reset pgdat to 0 and reuse the memory when the node is online again. The problem is suggested by Kamezawa Hiroyuki. The idea is from Wen Congyang. NOTE: If we don't reset pgdat to 0, the WARN_ON in free_area_init_node() will be triggered. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning when CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=n] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix the warning again again] Signed-off-by: Tang Chen Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Jianguo Wu Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Wu Jianguo Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed