mm: add helper ensure_zone_is_initialized()
authorCody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:35:30 +0000 (16:35 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:50:21 +0000 (17:50 -0800)
ensure_zone_is_initialized() checks if a zone is in a empty & not
initialized state (typically occuring after it is created in memory
hotplugging), and, if so, calls init_currently_empty_zone() to
initialize the zone.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory_hotplug.c

index 8b3235eedf3de6ff2969e1ebded15a709aff0778..6e625f60dbcc2d1e4937ddbe51f42a46971cfb05 100644 (file)
@@ -282,6 +282,17 @@ static void fix_zone_id(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
                set_page_links(pfn_to_page(pfn), zid, nid, pfn);
 }
 
+/* Can fail with -ENOMEM from allocating a wait table with vmalloc() or
+ * alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() */
+static int __ref ensure_zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone,
+                       unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long num_pages)
+{
+       if (!zone_is_initialized(zone))
+               return init_currently_empty_zone(zone, start_pfn, num_pages,
+                                                MEMMAP_HOTPLUG);
+       return 0;
+}
+
 static int __meminit move_pfn_range_left(struct zone *z1, struct zone *z2,
                unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 {