Re: [PATCH 2/2] Register bootmem pages at boot on powerpc

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On 08/11/2013 07:19 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 10:32 -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> 
>> +void register_page_bootmem_memmap(unsigned long section_nr,
>> +				  struct page *start_page, unsigned long size)
>> +{
>> +	WARN_ONCE(1, KERN_INFO
>> +		  "Sparse Vmemmap not fully supported for bootmem info nodes\n");
>> +}
>>  #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
> 
> But SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is our default on ppc64 pseries ... and you are
> select'ing the new option, so it looks like we are missing something
> here...
> 
> Can you tell me a bit more, the above makes me nervous...

Ok, I agree. that message isn't quite right.

What I wanted to convey is that memory hotplug is not fully supported
on powerpc with SPARSE_VMEMMAP enabled.. Perhaps the message should read
"Memory hotplug is not fully supported for bootmem info nodes".

Thoughts?

-Nathan

> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 
>> Index: powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- powerpc.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>> +++ powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>> @@ -297,12 +297,21 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
>>  }
>>  #endif /* ! CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES */
>>
>> +static void __init register_page_bootmem_info(void)
>> +{
>> +	int i;
>> +
>> +	for_each_online_node(i)
>> +		register_page_bootmem_info_node(NODE_DATA(i));
>> +}
>> +
>>  void __init mem_init(void)
>>  {
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
>>  	swiotlb_init(0);
>>  #endif
>>
>> +	register_page_bootmem_info();
>>  	high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);
>>  	set_max_mapnr(max_pfn);
>>  	free_all_bootmem();
>> Index: powerpc/mm/Kconfig
>> ===================================================================
>> --- powerpc.orig/mm/Kconfig
>> +++ powerpc/mm/Kconfig
>> @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
>>  config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>>  	bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
>>  	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
>> -	select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if X86_64
>> +	select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
>>  	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>>  	depends on MIGRATION
>>
>>
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