On Wed 05-04-17 12:32:49, Reza Arbab wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 05:42:59PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > >But one thing that is really bugging me is how could you see low pfns in > >the previous oops. Please drop the last patch and sprinkle printks down > >the remove_memory path to see where this all go south. I believe that > >there is something in the initialization code lurking in my code. Please > >also scratch the pfn_valid check in online_pages diff. It will not help > >here. > > Got it. > > shrink_pgdat_span: start_pfn=0x10000, end_pfn=0x10100, pgdat_start_pfn=0x0, pgdat_end_pfn=0x20000 > > The problem is that pgdat_start_pfn here should be 0x10000. As you > suspected, it never got set. This fixes things for me. > > diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c > index 623507f..37c1b63 100644 > --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c > +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c > @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ static void __meminit resize_pgdat_range(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned lon > { > unsigned long old_end_pfn = pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat); > > - if (start_pfn < pgdat->node_start_pfn) > + if (!pgdat->node_spanned_pages || start_pfn < pgdat->node_start_pfn) > pgdat->node_start_pfn = start_pfn; Dang! You are absolutely right. This explains the issue during the remove_memory. I still fail to see how this makes any difference for the sysfs file registration though. If anything the pgdat will be larger and so try_offline_node would check also unrelated node0 but the code will handle that and eventually offline the node1 anyway. /me still confused. > pgdat->node_spanned_pages = max(start_pfn + nr_pages, old_end_pfn) - pgdat->node_start_pfn; > --- > > Along these lines, maybe we should also do > > - if (start_pfn < zone->zone_start_pfn) > + if (zone_is_empty(zone) || start_pfn < zone->zone_start_pfn) yes we should. Thanks a lot! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>