[merged] mm-memory_hotplug-update-comment-regarding-zone-shuffling.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged] mm-memory_hotplug-update-comment-regarding-zone-shuffling.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/memory_hotplug: update comment regarding zone shuffling
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-memory_hotplug-update-comment-regarding-zone-shuffling.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: mm/memory_hotplug: update comment regarding zone shuffling

As we no longer shuffle via generic_online_page() and when undoing
isolation, we can simplify the comment.

We now effectively shuffle only once (properly) when onlining new memory.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005121534.15649-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Scott Cheloha <cheloha@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/memory_hotplug.c |   11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-memory_hotplug-update-comment-regarding-zone-shuffling
+++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -858,13 +858,10 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn
 	undo_isolate_page_range(pfn, pfn + nr_pages, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
 
 	/*
-	 * When exposing larger, physically contiguous memory areas to the
-	 * buddy, shuffling in the buddy (when freeing onlined pages, putting
-	 * them either to the head or the tail of the freelist) is only helpful
-	 * for maintaining the shuffle, but not for creating the initial
-	 * shuffle. Shuffle the whole zone to make sure the just onlined pages
-	 * are properly distributed across the whole freelist. Make sure to
-	 * shuffle once pageblocks are no longer isolated.
+	 * Freshly onlined pages aren't shuffled (e.g., all pages are placed to
+	 * the tail of the freelist when undoing isolation). Shuffle the whole
+	 * zone to make sure the just onlined pages are properly distributed
+	 * across the whole freelist - to create an initial shuffle.
 	 */
 	shuffle_zone(zone);
 
_

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