mm, memory_hotplug: remove timeout from __offline_memory
We have a hardcoded 120s timeout after which the memory offline fails
basically since the hot remove has been introduced. This is essentially
a policy implemented in the kernel. Moreover there is no way to adjust
the timeout and so we are sometimes facing memory offline failures if
the system is under a heavy memory pressure or very intensive CPU
workload on large machines.
It is not very clear what purpose the timeout actually serves. The
offline operation is interruptible by a signal so if userspace wants
some timeout based termination this can be done trivially by sending a
signal.
If there is a strong usecase to do this from the kernel then we should
do it properly and have a it tunable from the userspace with the timeout
disabled by default along with the explanation who uses it and for what
purporse.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Reza Arbab <[email protected]>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <[email protected]>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <[email protected]>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>