On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 16:40 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > @@ -741,49 +895,31 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_section(int nid, > unsigned long start_pfn, > unsigned long nr_pages, struct vmem_altmap *altmap) > { > unsigned long section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(start_pfn); > - struct mem_section_usage *usage; > struct mem_section *ms; > struct page *memmap; > int ret; I already pointed this out in v7, but: > > - /* > - * no locking for this, because it does its own > - * plus, it does a kmalloc > - */ > ret = sparse_index_init(section_nr, nid); > if (ret < 0 && ret != -EEXIST) > return ret; sparse_index_init() only returns either -ENOMEM or 0, so the above can be: if (ret < 0) or if (ret) > - ret = 0; > - memmap = populate_section_memmap(start_pfn, > PAGES_PER_SECTION, nid, > - altmap); > - if (!memmap) > - return -ENOMEM; > - usage = kzalloc(mem_section_usage_size(), GFP_KERNEL); > - if (!usage) { > - depopulate_section_memmap(start_pfn, > PAGES_PER_SECTION, altmap); > - return -ENOMEM; > - } > > - ms = __pfn_to_section(start_pfn); > - if (ms->section_mem_map & SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT) { > - ret = -EEXIST; > - goto out; > - } > + memmap = section_activate(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, altmap); > + if (IS_ERR(memmap)) > + return PTR_ERR(memmap); > + ret = 0; If we got here, sparse_index_init must have returned 0, so ret already contains 0. We can remove the assignment. > > /* > * Poison uninitialized struct pages in order to catch > invalid flags > * combinations. > */ > - page_init_poison(memmap, sizeof(struct page) * > PAGES_PER_SECTION); > + page_init_poison(pfn_to_page(start_pfn), sizeof(struct page) > * nr_pages); > > + ms = __pfn_to_section(start_pfn); > section_mark_present(ms); > - sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, usage); > + sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, ms->usage); > > -out: > - if (ret < 0) { > - kfree(usage); > - depopulate_section_memmap(start_pfn, > PAGES_PER_SECTION, altmap); > - } > + if (ret < 0) > + section_deactivate(start_pfn, nr_pages, nid, > altmap); AFAICS, ret is only set by the return code from sparse_index_init, so we cannot really get to this code being ret different than 0. So we can remove the above two lines. I will start reviewing the patches that lack review from this version soon. -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3