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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: qiuxishi <qiuxishi@gmail.com>,
	mgorman@suse.de, tony.luck@intel.com,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>,
	qiuxishi@huawei.com, bessel.wang@huawei.com,
	wujianguo@huawei.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	rientjes@google.com, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] memory hotplug: fix a double register section info bug
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:14:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120914131428.1f530681.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50530E39.5020100@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:00:09 +0900
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > @@ -187,9 +184,10 @@ void register_page_bootmem_info_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
> >   	end_pfn = pfn + pgdat->node_spanned_pages;
> >
> >   	/* register_section info */
> > -	for (; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION)
> > -		register_page_bootmem_info_section(pfn);
> > -
> > +	for (; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
> > +		if (pfn_valid(pfn) && (pfn_to_nid(pfn) == node))
> 
> I cannot judge whether your configuration is correct or not.
> Thus if it is correct, I want a comment of why the node check is
> needed. In usual configuration, a node does not span the other one.
> So it is natural that "pfn_to_nid(pfn) is same as "pgdat->node_id".
> Thus we may remove the node check in the future.

yup.  How does this look?

--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~memory-hotplug-fix-a-double-register-section-info-bug-fix
+++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -185,6 +185,12 @@ void register_page_bootmem_info_node(str
 
 	/* register_section info */
 	for (; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
+		/*
+		 * Some platforms can assign the same pfn to multiple nodes - on
+		 * node0 as well as nodeN.  To avoid registering a pfn against
+		 * multiple nodes we check that this pfn does not already
+		 * reside in some other node.
+		 */
 		if (pfn_valid(pfn) && (pfn_to_nid(pfn) == node))
 			register_page_bootmem_info_section(pfn);
 	}
_

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-14 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-14  3:43 [PATCH RESEND] memory hotplug: fix a double register section info bug qiuxishi
2012-09-14  9:52 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-14 16:24   ` Luck, Tony
2012-09-17 14:21     ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-14 11:00 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-14 20:14   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-09-16 10:14     ` xishi qiu
2012-09-18  0:11     ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu

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