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SubjectRe: [PATCH] memory-hotplug: fix zone stat mismatch
Hi KOSAKI,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:05:20PM -0400, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> > During memory-hotplug stress test, I found NR_ISOLATED_[ANON|FILE]
> > are increasing so that kernel are hang out.
> >
> > The cause is that when we do memory-hotadd after memory-remove,
> > __zone_pcp_update clear out zone's ZONE_STAT_ITEMS in setup_pageset
> > without draining vm_stat_diff of all CPU.
> >
> > This patch fixes it.
>
> zone_pcp_update() is called from online pages path. but IMHO,
> the statistics should be drained offline path. isn't it?

It isn't necessary because statistics is right until we reset it to zero
in online path.
Do you have something on your mind that we have to drain it in offline path?

>
> thanks.

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Kind Regards,
Minchan Kim


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