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

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Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2017 17:41:28 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, 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 Thu 06-04-17 10:24:49, Reza Arbab wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 03:08:46PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >OK, so after recent change mostly driven by testing from Reza Arbab
> >(thanks again) I believe I am getting to a working state finally. All I
> >currently have is
> >in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mhocko/mm.git tree
> >attempts/rewrite-mem_hotplug-WIP branch. I will highly appreciate more
> >testing of course and if there are no new issues found I will repost the
> >series for the review.
> 
> Looking good! I can do my add/remove/repeat test and things seem fine.
> 
> One thing--starting on the second iteration, I am seeing the WARN in
> free_area_init_node();
> 
> add_memory
>  add_memory_resource
>    hotadd_new_pgdat
>      free_area_init_node
> 	WARN_ON(pgdat->nr_zones || pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx);

Have you tested with my attempts/rewrite-mem_hotplug-WIP mentioned
elsewhere? Because I suspect that "mm: get rid of zone_is_initialized"
might cause this.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs