linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/7] mm,hwpoison: Remove drain_all_pages from shake

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Date:   Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:57:16 +0100
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] mm,hwpoison: Remove drain_all_pages from shake_page

get_hwpoison_page already drains pcplists, previously disabling
them when trying to grab a refcount.
We do not need shake_page to take care of it anymore.

Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 512613e9a1bd..ad976e1c3178 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -263,8 +263,8 @@ static int kill_proc(struct to_kill *tk, unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 }
 
 /*
- * When a unknown page type is encountered drain as many buffers as possible
- * in the hope to turn the page into a LRU or free page, which we can handle.
+ * Unknown page type encountered. Try to check whether it can turn PageLRU by
+ * lru_add_drain_all, or a free page by reclaiming slabs when possible.
  */
 void shake_page(struct page *p, int access)
 {
@@ -275,9 +275,6 @@ void shake_page(struct page *p, int access)
 		lru_add_drain_all();
 		if (PageLRU(p))
 			return;
-		drain_all_pages(page_zone(p));
-		if (PageLRU(p) || is_free_buddy_page(p))
-			return;
 	}
 
 	/*
-- 
2.26.2