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Message-ID: <20200316152459.GV11482@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:24:59 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/5] mm/memory_hotplug: convert memhp_auto_online to
 store an online_type

On Wed 11-03-20 13:30:25, David Hildenbrand wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
> index d6d64f8718e6..e15a600cfa4d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
> @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static int memtrace_online(void)
>  		 * If kernel isn't compiled with the auto online option
>  		 * we need to online the memory ourselves.
>  		 */
> -		if (!memhp_auto_online) {
> +		if (memhp_default_online_type == MMOP_OFFLINE) {
>  			lock_device_hotplug();
>  			walk_memory_blocks(ent->start, ent->size, NULL,
>  					   online_mem_block);

Whut? This stinks, doesn't it. For your defense, the original code is
fishy already but this just makes it even more ugly.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs