On 09.05.19 14:43, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 08:38:00PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Only memory to be added to the buddy and to be onlined/offlined by
>> user space using memory block devices needs (and should have!) memory
>> block devices.
>>
>> Factor out creation of memory block devices Create all devices after
>> arch_add_memory() succeeded. We can later drop the want_memblock parameter,
>> because it is now effectively stale.
>>
>> Only after memory block devices have been added, memory can be onlined
>> by user space. This implies, that memory is not visible to user space at
>> all before arch_add_memory() succeeded.
>>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "mike.travis@xxxxxxx" <mike.travis@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Banman <andrew.banman@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
>> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Arun KS <arunks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/base/memory.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>> include/linux/memory.h | 2 +-
>> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 15 ++++-----
>> 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
>> index 6e0cb4fda179..862c202a18ca 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/memory.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
>> @@ -701,44 +701,62 @@ static int add_memory_block(int base_section_nr)
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> +static void unregister_memory(struct memory_block *memory)
>> +{
>> + BUG_ON(memory->dev.bus != &memory_subsys);
>> +
>> + /* drop the ref. we got via find_memory_block() */
>> + put_device(&memory->dev);
>> + device_unregister(&memory->dev);
>> +}
>> +
>> /*
>> - * need an interface for the VM to add new memory regions,
>> - * but without onlining it.
>> + * Create memory block devices for the given memory area. Start and size
>> + * have to be aligned to memory block granularity. Memory block devices
>> + * will be initialized as offline.
>> */
>> -int hotplug_memory_register(int nid, struct mem_section *section)
>> +int hotplug_memory_register(unsigned long start, unsigned long size)
>> {
>> - int ret = 0;
>> + unsigned long block_nr_pages = memory_block_size_bytes() >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> + unsigned long start_pfn = PFN_DOWN(start);
>> + unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + (size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>> + unsigned long pfn;
>> struct memory_block *mem;
>> + int ret = 0;
>>
>> - mutex_lock(&mem_sysfs_mutex);
>> + BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(start, memory_block_size_bytes()));
>> + BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(size, memory_block_size_bytes()));
>
> After this change, the call flow looks like this:
>
> add_memory_resource
> check_hotplug_memory_range
> hotplug_memory_register
>
> Since in check_hotplug_memory_range() has checked the boundary, do we need to
> check here again?
>
I prefer to check for such requirements explicitly in applicable places,
especially if they are placed in different files. Makes code easier to
get. WARN_ON_ONCE will indicate that this has to be assured by the caller.
Thanks!
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
