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In the current implementation of soft offline, if non-LRU page is met,
all the slab caches will be dropped to free the page then offline.  But
if the page is not slab page all the effort is wasted in vain.  Even
though it is a slab page, it is not guaranteed the page could be freed
at all.

However the side effect and cost is quite high.  It does not only drop
the slab caches, but also may drop a significant amount of page caches
which are associated with inode caches.  It could make the most
workingset gone in order to just offline a page.  And the offline is not
guaranteed to succeed at all, actually I really doubt the success rate
for real life workload.

Furthermore the worse consequence is the system may be locked up and
unusable since the page cache release may incur huge amount of works
queued for memcg release.

Actually we ran into such unpleasant case in our production environment.
Firstly, the workqueue of memory_failure_work_func ...