[merged mm-stable] mm-memory_hotplug-drop-memblock_phys_free-call-in-try_remove_memory.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-memory_hotplug-drop-memblock_phys_free-call-in-try_remove_memory.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/memory_hotplug: drop memblock_phys_free() call in try_remove_memory()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-memory_hotplug-drop-memblock_phys_free-call-in-try_remove_memory.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Subject: mm/memory_hotplug: drop memblock_phys_free() call in try_remove_memory()
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 11:20:49 +0300

The call for memblock_phys_free() in try_remove_memory() does not balance
any call to memblock_alloc() (or memblock_reserve() for that matter).

There are no memblock_reserve() calls in mm/memory_hotplug.c, no memblock
allocations possible after mm_core_init(), and even if memblock_add_node()
called from add_memory_resource() would need to allocate memory, that
memory would ba allocated from slab.

The patch f9126ab9241f ("memory-hotplug: fix wrong edge when hot add a new
node") that introduced that call to memblock_free() does not provide
adequate description why that was required and tinkering with memblock in
the context of memory hotplug on x86 seems bogus because x86 never kept
memblock after boot anyway.

Drop memblock_phys_free() call in try_remove_memory().

[rppt@kernel.org: rewrite the commit message]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240605082049.973242-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/memory_hotplug.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-memory_hotplug-drop-memblock_phys_free-call-in-try_remove_memory
+++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -2282,10 +2282,8 @@ static int __ref try_remove_memory(u64 s
 		remove_memory_blocks_and_altmaps(start, size);
 	}
 
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK)) {
-		memblock_phys_free(start, size);
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK))
 		memblock_remove(start, size);
-	}
 
 	release_mem_region_adjustable(start, size);
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com are