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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mmzone.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 92b44149d5b9..e8922a67d1a4 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -407,8 +407,13 @@ enum zone_type { * to increase the number of THP/huge pages. Notable special cases are: * * 1. Pinned pages: (long-term) pinning of movable pages might - * essentially turn such pages unmovable. Memory offlining might - * retry a long time. + * essentially turn such pages unmovable. Therefore, we do not allow + * pinning long-term pages in ZONE_MOVABLE. When pages are pinned and + * faulted, they come from the right zone right away. However, it is + * still possible that address space already has pages in + * ZONE_MOVABLE at the time when pages are pinned (i.e. user has + * touches that memory before pinning). In such case we migrate them + * to a different zone. When migration fails - pinning fails. * 2. memblock allocations: kernelcore/movablecore setups might create * situations where ZONE_MOVABLE contains unmovable allocations * after boot. Memory offlining and allocations fail early. |