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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2 of 4] hotplug-memory: adding non-section-aligned memory is bad
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:34:51 +0900
Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > > diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > > --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > > +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> > > @@ -300,6 +300,11 @@
> > > int ret;
> > > u64 start = res->start;
> > > u64 size = res->end - res->start + 1;
> > > +
> > > + /* Adding non-section-aligned memory will give unexpected
> > > + and unintuitive results. */
> > > + WARN_ON((start & SECTION_SIZE_MASK) != 0);
> > > + WARN_ON((size & SECTION_SIZE_MASK) != 0);
> > >
> > Why just WARNING ? not BUG_ON?
>
> Both Nack.
>
> Because, firmware may occupy some area in the section.
> Firmware must exclude those area to notify kernel. So, E820, EFI,
> or _CRS of ACPI may return not aligned address and size.
> register_memory_resource() and walk_memory_resource() are to skip
> them silently. This is intended.
>
Ah, ok. sorry.

Jeremy, I think you can check whether you have 'struct page' or not by
pfn_valid().

If pfn_valid() == false, you should call add_memory() and create
a section/mem_map. If pfn_valid() == true, you should just remove
PG_reserved bit in mem_map by online_page().

Thanks,
-Kame



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