From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@au1.ibm.com>,
alastair@d-silva.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] memory_hotplug: Add a bounds check to __add_pages
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:47:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190926074718.GF20255@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190926073951.GA17200@linux>
On Thu 26-09-19 09:40:05, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:34:05AM +1000, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> > From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> > @@ -291,6 +307,10 @@ int __ref __add_pages(int nid, unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
> > unsigned long nr, start_sec, end_sec;
> > struct vmem_altmap *altmap = restrictions->altmap;
> >
> > + err = check_hotplug_memory_addressable(pfn, nr_pages);
> > + if (err)
> > + return err;
> > +
>
> I am probably off here because 1) I am jumping blind in a middle of a discussion and
> 2) I got back from holydays yesterday, so bear with me.
>
> Would not be better to just place the check in add_memory_resource instead?
This was the previous version of the patch. The argument is that we do
not want each add_pages user to think of this special handling.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-26 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 1:34 [PATCH v4 0/1] Add bounds check for Hotplugged memory Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-26 1:34 ` [PATCH v4] memory_hotplug: Add a bounds check to __add_pages Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-26 7:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-26 7:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-26 7:43 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-26 7:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-27 6:33 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-27 7:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-26 7:40 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-09-26 7:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-26 7:47 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-09-26 7:44 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-26 7:53 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-09-27 5:14 ` Alastair D'Silva
2019-09-26 15:35 ` kbuild test robot
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