I have done a work to associate a tag with each memblock,
may be that could be reused.
On 2013-3-22 18:02, Tang Chen wrote:
> On 03/22/2013 05:54 PM, Jianguo Wu wrote:
>> zone->wait_table may be allocated from bootmem, it can not be freed.
>>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Wen Congyang<wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Tang Chen<tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jiang Liu<jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu<wujianguo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 6 +++++-
>> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> index 07b6263..91ed7cd 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> @@ -1779,7 +1779,11 @@ void try_offline_node(int nid)
>> for (i = 0; i< MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
>> struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
>>
>> - if (zone->wait_table)
>> + /*
>> + * wait_table may be allocated from boot memory,
>> + * here only free if it's allocated by vmalloc.
>> + */
>> + if (is_vmalloc_addr(zone->wait_table))
>> vfree(zone->wait_table);
>
> Reviewed-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> FYI, I'm trying add a flag member into memblock to mark memory whose
> life cycle is the same as a node. I think maybe this flag could be used
> to free this kind of memory from bootmem.
>
> Thanks. :)
>
>
>> }
>>
>
>
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