linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: provide a more generic restrictions for memory hotplug

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Date:   Mon, 8 Apr 2019 21:30:41 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Cc:     mhocko@...e.com, david@...hat.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: provide a more generic
 restrictions for memory hotplug

On Mon,  8 Apr 2019 10:26:33 +0200 Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de> wrote:

> arch_add_memory, __add_pages take a want_memblock which controls whether
> the newly added memory should get the sysfs memblock user API (e.g.
> ZONE_DEVICE users do not want/need this interface). Some callers even
> want to control where do we allocate the memmap from by configuring
> altmap.
> 
> Add a more generic hotplug context for arch_add_memory and __add_pages.
> struct mhp_restrictions contains flags which contains additional
> features to be enabled by the memory hotplug (MHP_MEMBLOCK_API
> currently) and altmap for alternative memmap allocator.
> 
> This patch shouldn't introduce any functional change.

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: mm-memory_hotplug-provide-a-more-generic-restrictions-for-memory-hotplug-fix

x86_64 allnoconfig:

In file included from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:744:0,
                 from ./include/linux/gfp.h:6,
                 from ./include/linux/umh.h:4,
                 from ./include/linux/kmod.h:22,
                 from ./include/linux/module.h:13,
                 from init/do_mounts.c:1:
./include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:353:11: warning: ‘struct mhp_restrictions’ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
    struct mhp_restrictions *restrictions);
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fix this by moving the arch_add_memory() definition inside
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG and moving the mhp_restrictions definition to a more
appropriate place.

Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |   24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h~mm-memory_hotplug-provide-a-more-generic-restrictions-for-memory-hotplug-fix
+++ a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -54,6 +54,16 @@ enum {
 };
 
 /*
+ * Restrictions for the memory hotplug:
+ * flags:  MHP_ flags
+ * altmap: alternative allocator for memmap array
+ */
+struct mhp_restrictions {
+	unsigned long flags;
+	struct vmem_altmap *altmap;
+};
+
+/*
  * Zone resizing functions
  *
  * Note: any attempt to resize a zone should has pgdat_resize_lock()
@@ -101,6 +111,8 @@ extern void __online_page_free(struct pa
 
 extern int try_online_node(int nid);
 
+extern int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
+			struct mhp_restrictions *restrictions);
 extern u64 max_mem_size;
 
 extern bool memhp_auto_online;
@@ -126,16 +138,6 @@ extern int __remove_pages(struct zone *z
 
 #define MHP_MEMBLOCK_API               (1<<0)
 
-/*
- * Restrictions for the memory hotplug:
- * flags:  MHP_ flags
- * altmap: alternative allocator for memmap array
- */
-struct mhp_restrictions {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct vmem_altmap *altmap;
-};
-
 /* reasonably generic interface to expand the physical pages */
 extern int __add_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
 		       struct mhp_restrictions *restrictions);
@@ -349,8 +351,6 @@ extern int walk_memory_range(unsigned lo
 extern int __add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
 extern int add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
 extern int add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *resource);
-extern int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
-			struct mhp_restrictions *restrictions);
 extern void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 		unsigned long nr_pages, struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
 extern bool is_memblock_offlined(struct memory_block *mem);
_