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Message-ID: <20200708053239.GC386073@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 08:32:39 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     Justin He <Justin.He@....com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@...il.com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Kaly Xin <Kaly.Xin@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64/numa: export memory_add_physaddr_to_nid as
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 08:56:36PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:20 PM Justin He <Justin.He@....com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Michal and David
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 7:55 PM
> > > To: Justin He <Justin.He@....com>
> > > Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>; Will Deacon
> > > <will@...nel.org>; Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>; Vishal Verma
> > > <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>; Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>; Andrew
> > > Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>; Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>;
> > > Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>; Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@...il.com>; linux-
> > > arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-
> > > mm@...ck.org; linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org; Kaly Xin <Kaly.Xin@....com>
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64/numa: export memory_add_physaddr_to_nid
> > > as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> > >
> > > On Tue 07-07-20 13:59:15, Jia He wrote:
> > > > This exports memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() for module driver to use.
> > > >
> > > > memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() is a fallback option to get the nid in case
> > > > NUMA_NO_NID is detected.
> > > >
> > > > Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@....com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/arm64/mm/numa.c | 5 +++--
> > > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c b/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
> > > > index aafcee3e3f7e..7eeb31740248 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/numa.c
> > > > @@ -464,10 +464,11 @@ void __init arm64_numa_init(void)
> > > >
> > > >  /*
> > > >   * We hope that we will be hotplugging memory on nodes we already know
> > > about,
> > > > - * such that acpi_get_node() succeeds and we never fall back to this...
> > > > + * such that acpi_get_node() succeeds. But when SRAT is not present,
> > > the node
> > > > + * id may be probed as NUMA_NO_NODE by acpi, Here provide a fallback
> > > option.
> > > >   */
> > > >  int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 addr)
> > > >  {
> > > > -   pr_warn("Unknown node for memory at 0x%llx, assuming node 0\n",
> > > addr);
> > > >     return 0;
> > > >  }
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memory_add_physaddr_to_nid);
> > >
> > > Does it make sense to export a noop function? Wouldn't make more sense
> > > to simply make it static inline somewhere in a header? I haven't checked
> > > whether there is an easy way to do that sanely bu this just hit my eyes.
> >
> > Okay, I can make a change in memory_hotplug.h, sth like:
> > --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > @@ -149,13 +149,13 @@ int add_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
> >               struct mhp_params *params);
> >  #endif /* ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES */
> >
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > -extern int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 start);
> > -#else
> > +#if !defined(CONFIG_NUMA) || !defined(memory_add_physaddr_to_nid)
> >  static inline int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 start)
> >  {
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> > +#else
> > +extern int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 start);
> >  #endif
> >
> > And then check the memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() helper on all arches,
> > if it is noop(return 0), I can simply remove it.
> > if it is not noop, after the helper,
> > #define memory_add_physaddr_to_nid
> >
> > What do you think of this proposal?
> 
> Especially for architectures that use memblock info for numa info
> (which seems to be everyone except x86) why not implement a generic
> memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() that does:

That would be only arm64.

> int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 addr)
> {
>         unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn, pfn = PHYS_PFN(addr);
>         int nid;
> 
>         for_each_online_node(nid) {
>                 get_pfn_range_for_nid(nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn);
>                 if (pfn >= start_pfn && pfn <= end_pfn)
>                         return nid;
>         }
>         return NUMA_NO_NODE;
> }

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.