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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:02:28 +0800 From: Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com> To: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> CC: Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rientjes@...gle.com, liuj97@...il.com, len.brown@...el.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, cl@...ux.com, minchan.kim@...il.com, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com, wujianguo@...wei.com, hpa@...or.com, linfeng@...fujitsu.com, laijs@...fujitsu.com, mgorman@...e.de, yinghai@...nel.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, cmetcalf@...era.com, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 14/14] memory-hotplug: free node_data when a node is offlined At 12/28/2012 08:28 AM, Kamezawa Hiroyuki Wrote: > (2012/12/27 21:16), Wen Congyang wrote: >> At 12/26/2012 11:55 AM, Kamezawa Hiroyuki Wrote: >>> (2012/12/24 21:09), Tang Chen wrote: >>>> From: Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com> >>>> >>>> We call hotadd_new_pgdat() to allocate memory to store node_data. So we >>>> should free it when removing a node. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com> >>> >>> I'm sorry but is it safe to remove pgdat ? All zone cache and zonelists are >>> properly cleared/rebuilded in synchronous way ? and No threads are visinting >>> zone in vmscan.c ? >> >> We have rebuilt zonelists when a zone has no memory after offlining some pages. >> > > How do you guarantee that the address of pgdat/zone is not on stack of any kernel > threads or other kernel objects without reference counting or other syncing method ? No way to guarentee this. But, the kernel should not use the address of pgdat/zone when it is offlined. Hmm, what about this: reuse the memory when the node is onlined again? Thanks Wen Congyang > > > Thanks, > -Kame > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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