linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/17] mm: pass the vmem_altmap to arch_add_memory and __add

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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4i-TWnQ-fRVLB9kaSxJ+2QwZUEEixkTSwYGF-73fmemvw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:54:33 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/17] mm: pass the vmem_altmap to arch_add_memory and __add_pages

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> We can just pass this on instead of having to do a radix tree lookup
> without proper locking 2 levels into the callchain.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
[..]
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 8acdc35c2dfa..e26ade50ae18 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -772,12 +772,12 @@ static void update_end_of_memory_vars(u64 start, u64 size)
>         }
>  }
>
> -int add_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
> -             unsigned long nr_pages, bool want_memblock)
> +int add_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
> +               struct vmem_altmap *altmap, bool want_memblock)
>  {
>         int ret;
>
> -       ret = __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, want_memblock);
> +       ret = __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, NULL, want_memblock);
>         WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);

Should be 'altmap' instead of NULL.