The patch titled Subject: drivers/base/memory.c: drop section_count has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was drivers-base-memoryc-drop-section_count.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/base/memory.c: drop section_count Patch series "mm: drop superfluous section checks when onlining/offlining". Let's drop some superfluous section checks on the onlining/offlining path. This patch (of 3): Since commit c5e79ef561b0 ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: don't allow to online/offline memory blocks with holes") we have a generic check in offline_pages() that disallows offlining memory blocks with holes. Memory blocks with missing sections are just another variant of these type of blocks. We can stop checking (and especially storing) present sections. A proper error message is now printed why offlining failed. section_count was initially introduced in commit 07681215975e ("Driver core: Add section count to memory_block struct") in order to detect when it is okay to remove a memory block. It was used in commit 26bbe7ef6d5c ("drivers/base/memory.c: prohibit offlining of memory blocks with missing sections") to disallow offlining memory blocks with missing sections. As we refactored creation/removal of memory devices and have a proper check for holes in place, we can drop the section_count. This also removes a leftover comment regarding the mem_sysfs_mutex, which was removed in commit 848e19ad3c33 ("drivers/base/memory.c: drop the mem_sysfs_mutex"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200127110424.5757-2-david@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/memory.c | 17 +++-------------- include/linux/memory.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/base/memory.c~drivers-base-memoryc-drop-section_count +++ a/drivers/base/memory.c @@ -267,10 +267,6 @@ static int memory_subsys_offline(struct if (mem->state == MEM_OFFLINE) return 0; - /* Can't offline block with non-present sections */ - if (mem->section_count != sections_per_block) - return -EINVAL; - return memory_block_change_state(mem, MEM_OFFLINE, MEM_ONLINE); } @@ -627,7 +623,7 @@ static int init_memory_block(struct memo static int add_memory_block(unsigned long base_section_nr) { - int ret, section_count = 0; + int section_count = 0; struct memory_block *mem; unsigned long nr; @@ -638,12 +634,8 @@ static int add_memory_block(unsigned lon if (section_count == 0) return 0; - ret = init_memory_block(&mem, base_memory_block_id(base_section_nr), - MEM_ONLINE); - if (ret) - return ret; - mem->section_count = section_count; - return 0; + return init_memory_block(&mem, base_memory_block_id(base_section_nr), + MEM_ONLINE); } static void unregister_memory(struct memory_block *memory) @@ -679,7 +671,6 @@ int create_memory_block_devices(unsigned ret = init_memory_block(&mem, block_id, MEM_OFFLINE); if (ret) break; - mem->section_count = sections_per_block; } if (ret) { end_block_id = block_id; @@ -688,7 +679,6 @@ int create_memory_block_devices(unsigned mem = find_memory_block_by_id(block_id); if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mem)) continue; - mem->section_count = 0; unregister_memory(mem); } } @@ -717,7 +707,6 @@ void remove_memory_block_devices(unsigne mem = find_memory_block_by_id(block_id); if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mem)) continue; - mem->section_count = 0; unregister_memory_block_under_nodes(mem); unregister_memory(mem); } --- a/include/linux/memory.h~drivers-base-memoryc-drop-section_count +++ a/include/linux/memory.h @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ struct memory_block { unsigned long start_section_nr; unsigned long state; /* serialized by the dev->lock */ - int section_count; /* serialized by mem_sysfs_mutex */ int online_type; /* for passing data to online routine */ int phys_device; /* to which fru does this belong? */ struct device dev; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are drivers-base-memoryc-cache-memory-blocks-in-xarray-to-accelerate-lookup-fix.patch