Re: [PATCH v3 07/11] mm/memory_hotplug: Create memory block devices after arch_add_memory()

[Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>]

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:12 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Only memory to be added to the buddy and to be onlined/offlined by
> user space using /sys/devices/system/memory/... needs (and should have!)
> memory block devices.
>
> Factor out creation of memory block devices. Create all devices after
> arch_add_memory() succeeded. We can later drop the want_memblock parameter,
> because it is now effectively stale.
>
> Only after memory block devices have been added, memory can be onlined
> by user space. This implies, that memory is not visible to user space at
> all before arch_add_memory() succeeded.
>
> While at it
> - use WARN_ON_ONCE instead of BUG_ON in moved unregister_memory()
> - introduce find_memory_block_by_id() to search via block id
> - Use find_memory_block_by_id() in init_memory_block() to catch
>   duplicates
>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: "mike.travis@hpe.com" <mike.travis@hpe.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Banman <andrew.banman@hpe.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
> Cc: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

LGTM
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>