The patch titled Subject: mm/memory_hotplug.c: drop node_online check in unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memory_hotplug-drop-node_online-check-in-unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memory_hotplug-drop-node_online-check-in-unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memory_hotplug-drop-node_online-check-in-unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memory_hotplug.c: drop node_online check in unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes We are getting the nid from the pages that are not yet removed, but a node can only be offline when its memory/cpu's have been removed. Therefore, we know that the node is still online. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180815144219.6014-5-osalvador@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: <yasu.isimatu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/node.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/base/node.c~mm-memory_hotplug-drop-node_online-check-in-unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes +++ a/drivers/base/node.c @@ -465,8 +465,6 @@ void unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes(str if (nid < 0) continue; - if (!node_online(nid)) - continue; /* * It is possible that NODEMASK_ALLOC fails due to memory * pressure. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from osalvador@xxxxxxx are mm-memory_hotplug-make-add_memory_resource-use-__try_online_node.patch mm-memory_hotplug-call-register_mem_sect_under_node.patch mm-memory_hotplug-make-register_mem_sect_under_node-a-cb-of-walk_memory_range.patch mm-memory_hotplug-drop-unnecessary-checks-from-register_mem_sect_under_node.patch mm-sparse-make-sparse_init_one_section-void-and-remove-check.patch mm-remove-zone_id-and-make-use-of-zone_idx-in-is_dev_zone.patch mm-page_alloc-move-ifdefery-out-of-free_area_init_core.patch mm-page_alloc-inline-function-to-handle-config_deferred_struct_page_init.patch mm-page_alloc-introduce-free_area_init_core_hotplug.patch mm-page_alloc-introduce-free_area_init_core_hotplug-v6.patch mm-memory_hotplug-drop-unused-args-from-remove_memory_section.patch mm-memory_hotplug-drop-unneeded-check-from-unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes.patch mm-memory_hotplug-refactor-unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes.patch mm-memory_hotplug-drop-node_online-check-in-unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes.patch