mm/hotplug: optimize clear_hwpoisoned_pages()

In hot remove, we try to clear poisoned pages, but a small optimization to
check if num_poisoned_pages is 0 helps remove the iteration through
nr_pages.

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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 3abc8cc50201..691544a2814c 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -740,6 +740,15 @@ static void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struct page *memmap, int nr_pages)
 	if (!memmap)
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * A further optimization is to have per section refcounted
+	 * num_poisoned_pages.  But that would need more space per memmap, so
+	 * for now just do a quick global check to speed up this routine in the
+	 * absence of bad pages.
+	 */
+	if (atomic_long_read(&num_poisoned_pages) == 0)
+		return;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 		if (PageHWPoison(&memmap[i])) {
 			atomic_long_sub(1, &num_poisoned_pages);