From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx143.postini.com [74.125.245.143]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 933E66B0002 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:16:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <514FA535.4050503@huawei.com> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:15:33 +0800 From: Jiang Liu MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hotplug: only free wait_table if it's allocated by vmalloc References: <514C2A43.3020008@huawei.com> <514C2C36.3060709@cn.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <514C2C36.3060709@cn.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Tang Chen Cc: Jianguo Wu , Andrew Morton , Wen Congyang , qiuxishi , linux-mm@kvack.org I have done a work to associate a tag with each memblock, may be that could be reused. On 2013-3-22 18:02, Tang Chen wrote: > On 03/22/2013 05:54 PM, Jianguo Wu wrote: >> zone->wait_table may be allocated from bootmem, it can not be freed. >> >> Cc: Andrew Morton >> Cc: Wen Congyang >> Cc: Tang Chen >> Cc: Jiang Liu >> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org >> Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu >> --- >> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 6 +++++- >> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c >> index 07b6263..91ed7cd 100644 >> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c >> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c >> @@ -1779,7 +1779,11 @@ void try_offline_node(int nid) >> for (i = 0; i< MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) { >> struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i; >> >> - if (zone->wait_table) >> + /* >> + * wait_table may be allocated from boot memory, >> + * here only free if it's allocated by vmalloc. >> + */ >> + if (is_vmalloc_addr(zone->wait_table)) >> vfree(zone->wait_table); > > Reviewed-by: Tang Chen > > FYI, I'm trying add a flag member into memblock to mark memory whose > life cycle is the same as a node. I think maybe this flag could be used > to free this kind of memory from bootmem. > > Thanks. :) > > >> } >> > > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org