linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: make movable onlining suck less

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Date:   Wed, 5 Apr 2017 10:23:28 -0500
From:   Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@...il.com>,
        Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>, qiuxishi@...wei.com,
        Kani Toshimitsu <toshi.kani@....com>, slaoub@...il.com,
        Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@...wei.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>,
        Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...il.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: make movable onlining suck less

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:52:49PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>My code doesn't do that though. So I guess I have to sanitize. Does 
>this help? Please drop the "mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zone/node
>shrinking" patch.
>---
>diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>index acf2b5eb5ecb..2c5613d19eb6 100644
>--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>@@ -750,6 +750,15 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, int online_typ
> 	int ret;
> 	struct memory_notify arg;
>
>+	do {
>+		if (pfn_valid(pfn))
>+			break;
>+		pfn++;
>+	} while (--nr_pages > 0);
>+
>+	if (!nr_pages)
>+		return -EINVAL;
>+
> 	nid = pfn_to_nid(pfn);
> 	if (!allow_online_pfn_range(nid, pfn, nr_pages, online_type))
> 		return -EINVAL;

Sorry, no change. Back to the oops in find_biggest_section_pfn().

-- 
Reza Arbab