linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/sparse: start using sparse_init

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Date:   Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:52:11 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
Cc:     Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@...cle.com>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, jack@...e.cz, jglisse@...hat.com,
        Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>, dave.hansen@...el.com,
        rientjes@...gle.com, mingo@...nel.org, osalvador@...hadventures.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/sparse: start using sparse_init_nid(), and
 remove old code

On 07/01/18 at 09:46pm, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
>                          ~~~
> > Here, node id passed to sparse_init_nid() should be 'nid_begin', but not
> > 'nid'. When you found out the current section's 'nid' is diferent than
> > 'nid_begin', handle node 'nid_begin', then start to next node 'nid'.
> 
> Thank you for reviewing this work. Here nid equals to nid_begin:
> 
> See, "if" at 501, and this call is at 505.

Yes, if they are equal at 501, 'continue' to for loop. If nid is not
equal to nid_begin, we execute sparse_init_nid(), here should it be that
nid_begin is the current node, nid is next node?

> 
> 492 void __init sparse_init(void)
> 493 {
> 494         unsigned long pnum_begin = first_present_section_nr();
> 495         int nid_begin = sparse_early_nid(__nr_to_section(pnum_begin));
> 496         unsigned long pnum_end, map_count = 1;
> 497
> 498         for_each_present_section_nr(pnum_begin + 1, pnum_end) {
> 499                 int nid = sparse_early_nid(__nr_to_section(pnum_end));
> 500
> 501                 if (nid == nid_begin) {
> 502                         map_count++;
> 503                         continue;
> 504                 }
> 505                 sparse_init_nid(nid, pnum_begin, pnum_end, map_count);
> 506                 nid_begin = nid;
> 507                 pnum_begin = pnum_end;
> 508                 map_count = 1;
> 509         }
> 510         sparse_init_nid(nid_begin, pnum_begin, pnum_end, map_count);
> 511         vmemmap_populate_print_last();
> 512 }
> 
> Thank you,
> Pavel