From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Relax fully spanned sections check
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 18:33:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <df9bdb5157d6ad2f4a922d396ddf0c07@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b915143d-a8df-ddfc-94a8-7578fdd5f7bc@redhat.com>
On 2021-04-06 17:32, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> I'd only relax start_pfn. That way the function is pretty much
> impossible to abuse for sub-section onlining/offlining.
>
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!nr_pages ||
> !IS_ALIGNED(start_pfn, pageblock_nr_pages))
> !IS_ALIGNED(start_pfn + nr_pages, PAGES_PER_SECTION)))
But this is not going to work.
When using memmap_on_memory, the nr of pages that online_pages() and
offline_pages() get might be less than PAGES_PER_SECTION, so this check
will always blow us up.
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-06 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20210406111115.8953-1-osalvador@suse.de>
2021-04-06 11:11 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] drivers/base/memory: Introduce memory_block_{online,offline} Oscar Salvador
2021-04-06 11:11 ` [PATCH v6 2/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Relax fully spanned sections check Oscar Salvador
2021-04-06 15:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-06 16:33 ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2021-04-06 20:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-07 7:42 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-07 7:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-06 11:11 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Factor out adjusting present pages into adjust_present_page_count() Oscar Salvador
2021-04-06 15:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-07 7:11 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-06 11:11 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] acpi,memhotplug: Enable MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY when supported Oscar Salvador
2021-04-06 11:11 ` [PATCH v6 6/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory Oscar Salvador
2021-04-06 11:11 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] x86/Kconfig: Introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE Oscar Salvador
2021-04-06 11:11 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] arm64/Kconfig: " Oscar Salvador
[not found] ` <20210406111115.8953-5-osalvador@suse.de>
2021-04-06 17:10 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Allocate memmap from the added memory range kernel test robot
2021-04-06 20:28 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-07 20:38 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-09 5:05 ` Andrew Morton
2021-04-09 5:10 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-09 8:10 ` David Hildenbrand
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