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Message-ID: <20190123201506.GG3097@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:15:06 -0500
From:   Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, dave@...1.net,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, dave.jiang@...el.com, zwisler@...nel.org,
        vishal.l.verma@...el.com, thomas.lendacky@....com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mhocko@...e.com,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, ying.huang@...el.com, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
        bp@...e.de, bhelgaas@...gle.com, baiyaowei@...s.chinamobile.com,
        tiwai@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm/memory-hotplug: allow memory resources to be
 children

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:03:54PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 1/16/19 3:38 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > So right now i would rather that we keep properly reporting this
> > hazard so that at least we know it failed because of that. This
> > also include making sure that we can not register private memory
> > as a child of an un-busy resource that does exist but might not
> > have yet been claim by its rightful owner.
> 
> I can definitely keep the warning in.  But, I don't think there's a
> chance of HMM registering a IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY region as
> the child of another.  The region_intersects() check *should* find that:

Sounds fine to (just keep the warning).

Cheers,
Jérôme

> 
> >         for (; addr > size && addr >= iomem_resource.start; addr -= size) {
> >                 ret = region_intersects(addr, size, 0, IORES_DESC_NONE);
> >                 if (ret != REGION_DISJOINT)
> >                         continue;
> 

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