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commit 8dc4bb58a146655eb057247d7c9d19e73928715b upstream. virtio-mem soon wants to use offline_and_remove_memory() memory that exceeds a single Linux memory block (memory_block_size_bytes()). Let's remove that restriction. Let's remember the old state and try to restore that if anything goes wrong. While re-onlining can, in general, fail, it's highly unlikely to happen (usually only when a notifier fails to allocate memory, and these are rather rare). This will be used by virtio-mem to offline+remove memory ranges that are bigger than a single memory block - for example, with a device block size of 1 GiB (e.g., gigantic pages in the hypervisor) and a Linux memory block size of 128MB. While we could compress the state into 2 bit, using 8 bit is much easier. This handling is similar, but different to acpi_scan_try_to_offline(): a) We don't try to offline twice. I am not sure if this CONFIG_MEMCG optimization is still relevant - it should only apply to ZONE_NORMAL (where we have no guarantees). If relevant, we can always add it. b) acpi_scan_try_to_offline() simply onlines all memory in case something goes wrong. It doesn't restore previous online type. Let's do that, so we won't overwrite what e.g., user space configured. Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201112133815.13332-28-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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