linux-kernel - Re: [v4 5/6] mm/memory_hotplug: don't read nid from struct page during hotplug

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:09:15 -0500
From:   Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@...cle.com>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, mingo@...hat.com,
        hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, bhe@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [v4 5/6] mm/memory_hotplug: don't read nid from struct page
 during hotplug

> The namespace of all these memory range handling functions is horribly random,
> and I think now it got worse: we add an assumption that register_new_memory() is
> implicitly called as part of hotplugged memory (where things are pre-cleared) -
> but nothing in its naming suggests so.
>
> How about renaming it to hotplug_memory_register() or so?

Sure, I will rename it.

>
> With that change you can add:
>
>   Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

Thank you,
Pavel