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When trying to soft-offline a free page, we need to first take it off the buddy allocator. Once we know is out of reach, we can safely flag it as poisoned. take_page_off_buddy will be used to take a page meant to be poisoned off the buddy allocator. take_page_off_buddy calls break_down_buddy_pages, which splits a higher-order page in case our page belongs to one. Once the page is under our control, we call page_handle_poison to set it as poisoned and grab a refcount on it. Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200922135650.1634-9-osalvador@suse.de Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.