From 39da08cb074cf19cb249832a2a955dfb28837e65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:58:36 -0800
Subject: hugetlb: offload per node attribute registrations

Offload the registration and unregistration of per node hstate sysfs
attributes to a worker thread rather than attempt the
allocation/attachment or detachment/freeing of the attributes in the
context of the memory hotplug handler.

I don't know that this is absolutely required, but the registration can
sleep in allocations and other mem hot plug handlers do it this way.  If
it turns out this is NOT required, we can drop this patch.

N.B.,  Only tested build, boot, libhugetlbfs regression.
       i.e., no memory hotplug testing.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/node.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'include/linux/node.h')

diff --git a/include/linux/node.h b/include/linux/node.h
index dae1521e1f05..06292dac3eab 100644
--- a/include/linux/node.h
+++ b/include/linux/node.h
@@ -21,9 +21,14 @@
 
 #include <linux/sysdev.h>
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 struct node {
 	struct sys_device	sysdev;
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE) && defined(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS)
+	struct work_struct	node_work;
+#endif
 };
 
 struct memory_block;
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