From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
hpa@zytor.com, tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86,mem-hotplug: modify PGD entry when removing memory
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:31:50 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A8C6F6.2060906@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403289003.25108.3.camel@misato.fc.hp.com>
(2014/06/21 3:30), Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 15:38 +0900, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> :
>> @@ -186,7 +186,12 @@ void sync_global_pgds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>> const pgd_t *pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address);
>> struct page *page;
>>
>> - if (pgd_none(*pgd_ref))
>> + /*
>> + * When it is called after memory hot remove, pgd_none()
>> + * returns true. In this case (removed == 1), we must clear
>> + * the PGD entries in the local PGD level page.
>> + */
>> + if (pgd_none(*pgd_ref) && !removed)
>> continue;
>>
>> spin_lock(&pgd_lock);
>> @@ -199,12 +204,18 @@ void sync_global_pgds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>> pgt_lock = &pgd_page_get_mm(page)->page_table_lock;
>> spin_lock(pgt_lock);
>>
>> - if (pgd_none(*pgd))
>> - set_pgd(pgd, *pgd_ref);
>> - else
>> + if (!pgd_none(*pgd_ref) && !pgd_none(*pgd))
>> BUG_ON(pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd)
>> != pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd_ref));
>>
>> + if (removed) {
>
> Shouldn't this condition be "else if"?
The first if sentence checks whether PGDs hit to BUG_ON. And the second
if sentence checks whether the function was called after hot-removing memory.
I think that the first if sentence and the second if sentence check different
things. So I think the condition should be "if" sentence.
Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu
>
> Thanks,
> -Toshi
>
>> + if (pgd_none(*pgd_ref) && !pgd_none(*pgd))
>> + pgd_clear(pgd);
>> + } else {
>> + if (pgd_none(*pgd))
>> + set_pgd(pgd, *pgd_ref);
>> + }
>> +
>> spin_unlock(pgt_lock);
>> }
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-24 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-18 6:34 [PATCH 0/2] fix kernel panic on memory hotplug Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-06-18 6:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86,mem-hotplug: pass sync_global_pgds() a correct argument in remove_pagetable() Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-06-20 18:27 ` Toshi Kani
2014-06-24 0:33 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-06-18 6:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86,mem-hotplug: modify PGD entry when removing memory Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-06-20 18:30 ` Toshi Kani
2014-06-24 0:31 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu [this message]
2014-06-24 15:12 ` Toshi Kani
2014-06-24 23:29 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
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