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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mem-hotplug: let memblock skip the hotpluggable memory regions in __next_mem_range()
On 2014/8/16 21:04, Tejun Heo wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 09:31:22PM +0800, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>> Let memblock skip the hotpluggable memory regions in __next_mem_range(),
>> it is used to to prevent memblock from allocating hotpluggable memory
>> for the kernel at early time. The code is the same as __next_mem_range_rev().
>>
>> Clear hotpluggable flag before releasing free pages to the buddy allocator.
>
> Please try to explain "why" in addition to "what". Why do we need to
> clear hotpluggable flag in free_low_memory_core_early() in addition to
> numa_clear_node_hotplug() in x86 numa.c? Does this make x86 code
> redundant? If not, why?
>

Hi Tejun,

numa_clear_node_hotplug()? There is only numa_clear_kernel_node_hotplug().

If we don't clear hotpluggable flag in free_low_memory_core_early(), the
memory which marked hotpluggable flag will not free to buddy allocator.
Because __next_mem_range() will skip them.

free_low_memory_core_early
for_each_free_mem_range
for_each_mem_range
__next_mem_range

Thanks,
Xishi Qiu



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