linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] mm/memory hotplug/unplug: Add online_memory_block_pages() and offline_memory_block

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Message-ID: <becccb16-c7bf-417d-a065-bb3a98eac88f@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:56:42 +0800
From: "Li, Tianyou" <tianyou.li@...el.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
CC: David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
	Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, Yong Hu <yong.hu@...el.com>, Nanhai Zou
	<nanhai.zou@...el.com>, Yuan Liu <yuan1.liu@...el.com>, Tim Chen
	<tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>, Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>, Yu C Chen
	<yu.c.chen@...el.com>, Pan Deng <pan.deng@...el.com>, Chen Zhang
	<zhangchen.kidd@...com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] mm/memory hotplug/unplug: Add
 online_memory_block_pages() and offline_memory_block_pages()


On 1/27/2026 2:58 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 08:30:57PM +0800, Li, Tianyou wrote:
>> On 1/22/2026 7:32 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
>>>> index 751f248ca4a8..ea4d6fbf34fd 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/base/memory.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
>>>> @@ -246,31 +246,12 @@ static int memory_block_online(struct memory_block *mem)
>>>>    		nr_vmemmap_pages = mem->altmap->free;
>>>>    	mem_hotplug_begin();
>>>> -	if (nr_vmemmap_pages) {
>>>> -		ret = mhp_init_memmap_on_memory(start_pfn, nr_vmemmap_pages, zone);
>>>> -		if (ret)
>>>> -			goto out;
>>>> -	}
>>>> -
>>>> -	ret = online_pages(start_pfn + nr_vmemmap_pages,
>>>> -			   nr_pages - nr_vmemmap_pages, zone, mem->group);
>>>> -	if (ret) {
>>>> -		if (nr_vmemmap_pages)
>>>> -			mhp_deinit_memmap_on_memory(start_pfn, nr_vmemmap_pages);
>>>> -		goto out;
>>>> -	}
>>>> -
>>>> -	/*
>>>> -	 * Account once onlining succeeded. If the zone was unpopulated, it is
>>>> -	 * now already properly populated.
>>>> -	 */
>>>> -	if (nr_vmemmap_pages)
>>>> -		adjust_present_page_count(pfn_to_page(start_pfn), mem->group,
>>>> -					  nr_vmemmap_pages);
>>>> -
>>>> -	mem->zone = zone;
>>>> -out:
>>>> +	ret = online_memory_block_pages(start_pfn, nr_pages, nr_vmemmap_pages,
>>>> +					zone, mem->group);
>>>> +	if (!ret)
>>>> +		mem->zone = zone;
>>> I think we can move most of memory_block_online() to the new function and
>>> pass struct memory_block to it.
>>> I'd suggest
>>> 	
>>> 	int mhp_block_online(struct memory_block *block)
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> 	int mhp_block_offline(struct memory_block *block)
>>>
>>> Other than that LGTM.
>>
>> It's doable, if not other comments I can change the code. Would it look like
>> moving the functions to mm/memory_hotplug.c, change the name to
>> mhp_block_online() and mhp_block_offline(), and change the references where
>> the original function invoked in drivers/base/memory.c?
> Yeah, that's what I thought about.
>
> Even more broadly, I think the functionality in drivers/base/memory.c
> belongs to mm/ much more than to drivers/ but that's surely out of scope
> for these patches.
>   


Thanks Mike for the confirmation.


>> My prior thoughts on this was just break the code as small pieces as
>> necessary to handle the pages online part together with zone contiguous
>> state update.
> IMHO moving the entire function is cleaner, let's hear what David and Oscar
> think.


Sure. Actually the patch has been ready with the mhp_block_online() and 
mhp_block_offline() moved to memory_hotplug.c, the 
online_memory_block_pages() and offline_memory_block_pages() remains but 
as static function.


Once get feedback from David and Oscar, I can change them accordingly.