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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/page-flags.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/page-flags.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index 222f6f7b2bb3..6be1aa559b1e 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -777,6 +777,16 @@ PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Buddy, buddy) * not onlined when onlining the section). * The content of these pages is effectively stale. Such pages should not * be touched (read/write/dump/save) except by their owner. + * + * If a driver wants to allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages without + * putting them back to the buddy, it can do so via the memory notifier by + * decrementing the reference count in MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and incrementing the + * reference count in MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE. When offlining, the PageOffline() + * pages (now with a reference count of zero) are treated like free pages, + * allowing the containing memory block to get offlined. A driver that + * relies on this feature is aware that re-onlining the memory block will + * require to re-set the pages PageOffline() and not giving them to the + * buddy via online_page_callback_t. */ PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Offline, offline) |