linux-kernel - [patch 1/2] mm, hotplug: fix error handling in mem_online

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106221810130.23120@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:13:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [patch 1/2] mm, hotplug: fix error handling in mem_online_node()

The error handling in mem_online_node() is incorrect: hotadd_new_pgdat() 
returns NULL if the new pgdat could not have been allocated and a pointer 
to it otherwise.

mem_online_node() should fail if hotadd_new_pgdat() fails, not the 
inverse.  This fixes an issue when memoryless nodes are not onlined and 
their sysfs interface is not registered when their first cpu is brought 
up.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ int mem_online_node(int nid)
 
 	lock_memory_hotplug();
 	pgdat = hotadd_new_pgdat(nid, 0);
-	if (pgdat) {
+	if (!pgdat) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
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