linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Relax fully spanned sections check

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Message-ID: <20210407074249.GA9353@linux>
Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:42:53 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Relax fully spanned sections
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:43:01PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> But not end_pfn as given in my version or what am I missing?

Nah, was my fault, I managed to see:

 if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!nr_pages ||
         !IS_ALIGNED(start_pfn, pageblock_nr_pages))
         !IS_ALIGNED(start_pfn | nr_pages, PAGES_PER_SECTION)))

which would not work.

I agree that keeping the PAGES_PER_SECTION check maks this safer, so this all
should have been:

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 0cdbbfbc5757..25e59d5dc13c 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -838,9 +838,14 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
        int ret;
        struct memory_notify arg;
 
-       /* We can only online full sections (e.g., SECTION_IS_ONLINE) */
+       /* We can only offline full sections (e.g., SECTION_IS_ONLINE).
+        * However, when using e.g: memmap_on_memory, some pages are initialized
+        * prior to calling in here. The remaining amount of pages must be
+        * pageblock aligned.
+        */
        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!nr_pages ||
-                        !IS_ALIGNED(pfn | nr_pages, PAGES_PER_SECTION)))
+                        !IS_ALIGNED(pfn, pageblock_nr_pages) ||
+                        !IS_ALIGNED(pfn + nr_pages, PAGES_PER_SECTION)))
                return -EINVAL;
 
        mem_hotplug_begin();
@@ -1573,9 +1578,14 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
        int ret, node;
        char *reason;
 
-       /* We can only offline full sections (e.g., SECTION_IS_ONLINE) */
+       /* We can only offline full sections (e.g., SECTION_IS_ONLINE).
+        * However, when using e.g: memmap_on_memory, some pages are initialized
+        * prior to calling in here. The remaining amount of pages must be
+        * pageblock aligned.
+        */
        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!nr_pages ||
-                        !IS_ALIGNED(start_pfn | nr_pages, PAGES_PER_SECTION)))
+                        !IS_ALIGNED(start_pfn, pageblock_nr_pages) ||
+                        !IS_ALIGNED(start_pfn + nr_pages, PAGES_PER_SECTION)))
                return -EINVAL;
 
        mem_hotplug_begin();

 

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3