On 07.03.20 09:42, Baoquan He wrote: > In section_deactivate(), pfn_to_page() doesn't work any more after > ms->section_mem_map is resetting to NULL in SPARSEMEM|!VMEMMAP case. > It caused hot remove failure: > > kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:4806! > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI > CPU: 3 PID: 8 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Tainted: G W 5.5.0-next-20200205+ #340 > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 > Workqueue: kacpi_hotplug acpi_hotplug_work_fn > RIP: 0010:free_pages+0x85/0xa0 > Call Trace: > __remove_pages+0x99/0xc0 > arch_remove_memory+0x23/0x4d > try_remove_memory+0xc8/0x130 > ? walk_memory_blocks+0x72/0xa0 > __remove_memory+0xa/0x11 > acpi_memory_device_remove+0x72/0x100 > acpi_bus_trim+0x55/0x90 > acpi_device_hotplug+0x2eb/0x3d0 > acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x1a/0x30 > process_one_work+0x1a7/0x370 > worker_thread+0x30/0x380 > ? flush_rcu_work+0x30/0x30 > kthread+0x112/0x130 > ? kthread_create_on_node+0x60/0x60 > ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 > > Let's move the ->section_mem_map resetting after depopulate_section_memmap() > to fix it. > > Fixes: ba72b4c8cf60 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug") > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --- > mm/sparse.c | 8 ++++++-- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c > index 42c18a38ffaa..1b50c15677d7 100644 > --- a/mm/sparse.c > +++ b/mm/sparse.c > @@ -734,6 +734,7 @@ static void section_deactivate(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, > struct mem_section *ms = __pfn_to_section(pfn); > bool section_is_early = early_section(ms); > struct page *memmap = NULL; > + bool empty = false; Oh, one NIT: no need to initialize empty to false. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb