linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 4/5] mm, sparse: complain about implicit altmap usage in vmemmap

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Message-Id: <20170726083333.17754-5-mhocko@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:33:32 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@...il.com>,
        qiuxishi@...wei.com, Kani Toshimitsu <toshi.kani@....com>,
        slaoub@...il.com, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>,
        Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 4/5] mm, sparse: complain about implicit altmap usage in vmemmap_populate

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

All current users of the altmap are in the memory hotplug code and
they use __vmemmap_populate explicitly (via __sparse_mem_map_populate).
Complain if somebody uses vmemmap_populate with altmap registered
because that could be an unexpected usage. Also call __vmemmap_populate
with NULL from that code path.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 3ce673570fb8..ae1fa053d09e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2456,8 +2456,12 @@ int __vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
 static inline int vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 		int node)
 {
-	struct vmem_altmap *altmap = to_vmem_altmap(start);
-	return __vmemmap_populate(start, end, node, altmap);
+	/*
+	 * All users of the altmap have to be explicit and use
+	 * __vmemmap_populate directly
+	 */
+	WARN_ON(to_vmem_altmap(start));
+	return __vmemmap_populate(start, end, node, NULL);
 }
 
 void vmemmap_populate_print_last(void);
-- 
2.13.2