Re: [PATCH v3 02/11] s390x/mm: Fail when an altmap is used for arch_add_memory()

Michal Hocko
2019-07-01T07:43:06Z

On Mon 27-05-19 13:11:43, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> ZONE_DEVICE is not yet supported, fail if an altmap is passed, so we
> don't forget arch_add_memory()/arch_remove_memory() when unlocking
> support.

Why do we need this? Sure ZONE_DEVICE is not supported for s390 and so
might be the case for other arches which support hotplug. I do not see
much point in adding warning to each of them.

> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com>
> Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/s390/mm/init.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/init.c b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
> index 14d1eae9fe43..d552e330fbcc 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
> @@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
> unsigned long size_pages = PFN_DOWN(size);
> int rc;
>
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(restrictions->altmap))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> rc = vmem_add_mapping(start, size);
> if (rc)
> return rc;
> --
> 2.20.1
>

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs