Re: [PATCH 2/2] memory-hotplug: remove reset_node_managed_pages() and reset_node_managed_pages() in hotadd_new_pgdat()

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On 08/24/2015 05:17 PM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
On 2015/8/23 18:28, Tang Chen wrote:

Hi Shi,

Sorry for the late reply. I hope it won't be too late.

NON-ACK by me, I think.

I noticed that your first has been merged. But it won't fix the problem
these code intended to fix.

After your patch 1, zone's spanned/present won't be set to 0 because:

free_area_init_node()
  |--> get_pfn_range_for_nid(&start_pfn, &end_pfn)
  |--> calculate_node_totalpages(pgdat, start_pfn, end_pfn, ...)
          | --> zone_spanned_pages_in_node()
                   | --> if (!node_start_pfn && !node_end_pfn) return 0;    --------    false, won't return 0
          | --> zone_absent_pages_in_node()
                   | --> if (!node_start_pfn && !node_end_pfn) return 0;    --------    false, won't return 0

Hi Tang,

Thank you for your reply. When we add a new node, it is not included in the
memblock, I have no idea why zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_absent_pages_in_node()
won't return 0. Do you add some debug code and print it?

Sorry, I didn't say it clearly since I was in a hurry.

If we move memblock_add_node() forward before hotadd_new_pgdat(),
then node_start_pfn and node_end_pfn won't be 0. And
zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_absent_pages_in_node() won't
return 0.

In your patch, they will return 0. And that leads to the print problem.


This is caused by a little bug in your patch 1.

You should put memblock_add_node(start, size, nid) before hotadd_new_pgdat()
because:

My patch is just add an empty node first, later __add_zone() will update the size.
But it is all right put here, and it can fix the print bug.

Yes. I just found this bug in the log.


hotadd_new_pgdat()
  | --> free_area_init_node()
           | --> get_pfn_range_for_nid()
                    | --> find memory ranges in memblock.

| --> memblock_add_node(start, size, nid) -------------------    if you add it here, it doesn't work.

The result will be like below if we hotadd node 5.
[ 2007.577000] Initmem setup node 5 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
	pr_info("Initmem setup node %d [mem %#018Lx-%#018Lx]\n", nid,
		(u64)start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, ((u64)end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1);
start_pfn and end_pfn are both 0, and 0-1 -> 0xffffffffffffffff, right?

Yes.


[ 2007.584000] On node 5 totalpages: 0
[ 2007.585000] Built 5 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32588823
[ 2007.594000] Policy zone: Normal
[ 2007.598000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x60000000000-0x607ffffffff]


And also, if we merge this patch, /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/meminfo will break.

trigger call trace?

No. There is no error output. But if you see /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/meminfo, memory size will double because totalpages is calculated once here, and one more time
when onlining memory.

I think reset it to 0 in add_memory() is just a temporary solution. Will improve it in the
future.

Thanks.


Since this patch is not merged, I think let's just drop it.

And about the little bug in your patch 1, since I'm in a hurry, I have already send a patch to fix it.


Thanks. :)


On 08/11/2015 03:33 PM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
After hotadd_new_pgdat()->free_area_init_node(), the pgdat and zone's spanned/present
are both 0, so remove reset_node_managed_pages() and reset_node_managed_pages().

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
   mm/memory_hotplug.c | 25 -------------------------
   1 file changed, 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 11f26cc..997dfad 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1065,16 +1065,6 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, int online_typ
   }
   #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE */
   -static void reset_node_present_pages(pg_data_t *pgdat)
-{
-    struct zone *z;
-
-    for (z = pgdat->node_zones; z < pgdat->node_zones + MAX_NR_ZONES; z++)
-        z->present_pages = 0;
-
-    pgdat->node_present_pages = 0;
-}
-
   /* we are OK calling __meminit stuff here - we have CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
   static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat(int nid, u64 start)
   {
@@ -1109,21 +1099,6 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat(int nid, u64 start)
       build_all_zonelists(pgdat, NULL);
       mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
   -    /*
-     * zone->managed_pages is set to an approximate value in
-     * free_area_init_core(), which will cause
-     * /sys/device/system/node/nodeX/meminfo has wrong data.
-     * So reset it to 0 before any memory is onlined.
-     */
-    reset_node_managed_pages(pgdat);
-
-    /*
-     * When memory is hot-added, all the memory is in offline state. So
-     * clear all zones' present_pages because they will be updated in
-     * online_pages() and offline_pages().
-     */
-    reset_node_present_pages(pgdat);
-
       return pgdat;
   }

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