linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 08/14] memory-hotplug: Common APIs to support page tables hot-remove

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Date:	Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:49:27 +0800
From:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/14] memory-hotplug: Common APIs to support page
 tables hot-remove

On 12/25/2012 04:17 PM, Jianguo Wu wrote:
>> +
>> +static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page *page, int order)
>> +{
>> +	struct zone *zone;
>> +	bool bootmem = false;
>> +	unsigned long magic;
>> +
>> +	/* bootmem page has reserved flag */
>> +	if (PageReserved(page)) {
>> +		__ClearPageReserved(page);
>> +		bootmem = true;
>> +
>> +		magic = (unsigned long)page->lru.next;
>> +		if (magic == SECTION_INFO || magic == MIX_SECTION_INFO)
>> +			put_page_bootmem(page);
>
> Hi Tang,
>
> For removing memmap of sparse-vmemmap, in cpu_has_pse case, if magic == SECTION_INFO,
> the order will be get_order(PMD_SIZE), so we need a loop here to put all the 512 pages.
>
Hi Wu,

Thanks for reminding me that. I truely missed it.

And since in register_page_bootmem_info_section(), a whole memory
section will be set as SECTION_INFO, I think we don't need to check
the page magic one by one, just the first one is enough. :)

I will fix it, thanks. :)

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