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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200120072939.GD18451@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 X-MC-Unique: eDoBCXR4PYmP_HOxxapVyg-1 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On 20.01.20 08:29, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 20-01-20 10:33:14, Pingfan Liu wrote: >> After commit ba72b4c8cf60 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug"), >> when a mem section is fully deactivated, section_mem_map still records the >> section's start pfn, which is not used any more and will be reassigned >> during re-added. >> >> In analogy with alloc/free pattern, it is better to clear all fields of >> section_mem_map. >> >> Beside this, it breaks the user space tool "makedumpfile" [1], which makes >> assumption that a hot-removed section has mem_map as NULL, instead of >> checking directly against SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT bit. (makedumpfile will be >> better to change the assumption, and need a patch) >> >> The bug can be reproduced on IBM POWERVM by "drmgr -c mem -r -q 5" , >> trigger a crash, and save vmcore by makedumpfile > > While makedumpfile lives very closely to the kernel and occasional > breakage is to be expected I still believe that Fixes: ba72b4c8cf60 > is due. +1 as I expressed earlier. > >> [1]: makedumpfile, commit e73016540293 ("[v1.6.7] Update version") >> >> Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu >> To: linux-mm@kvack.org >> Cc: Andrew Morton >> Cc: David Hildenbrand >> Cc: Dan Williams >> Cc: Oscar Salvador >> Cc: Michal Hocko >> Cc: Baoquan He >> Cc: Qian Cai >> Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org >> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio > I think you dropped my Acked-by: David Hildenbrand -- Thanks, David / dhildenb